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BIOCHEMISTRY 

and 

Physiological Therapeutics 



REVISED EDITION 



By 
ALEXANDER. CHITT1CK, M. D. 



Printed by 

J. W. FRANKS & SONS 

Peoria, 111 






Copyright 1918 by 
ALEXANDER CHITTICK, M. D. 



MAY II 1918 
©CLA497262 



Contents 



Page 
PREFACE 5 

INTRODUCTION 7 

CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 13 

PATHOLOGY 31 

MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. . . 47 

OXIDATION 67 

INTRAVENOUS MEDICATION 83 

BLOOD PRESSURE 91 

BACTERIOLOGY 103 

DIET AND HYGIENE 117 

MENTAL SCIENCE 135 

COMPLIMENTARY CLOSING 147 



Preface 



Someone has wisely said : "In the midst of 
life we are in death/' 

Death is a universal law. To all life nature 
has set a limit from which there is no escape. 
The life of the human organism is an aggregate 
life. The life of the whole is the life of the 
individual cells, some of which are dying con- 
tinually. 

The death of some cells, like those of the 
hair and nails, does not affect the vitality of the 
whole, yet the death of a few cells like red 
blood corpuscles and cells of the heart and ner- 
vous centers would cause the death of the 
individual. 

Muscle cells retain life long after the rest of 
the body is dead ; this is because they receive 
their nutrition from the fluid in the intercellu- 
lar spaces. Lymph continues to flow for some 
time after the animal is dead. 

The chief cause of the malignancy of the in- 
fectious diseases is that their toxins destroy 
cell life in the aggregate. 

The genesis of all life is within the cell. Man 
is a multicellular animal, differing from the 
unicellular amoeba only in the number of cells. 
Disease and death, being the direct antagonists 
of life and health, must also originate in the 
cell. 



6 PREFACE 

Every cell is derived from another and shares 
the harmonies and inherent proclivities of 
the parent cell. 

The true sources of disease and health are 
found in the cell, and all rational treatment 
should be directed to the cell, and the elements 
supplied to its exhausted protoplasm to give it 
life and activity. 

The constituents of the body are the perfect 
principals ; oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, lime, 
iron, potash, soda, silica, magnesia, etc. These 
tissue salts and gases carry on the chemistry 
of life. Physiological chemistry goes on within 
the cell and intercellularly and uses as its 
reagents the cell salts. Therefore a deficiency 
in any of the cell salts means a break in the 
molecular chain that carries on the chemistry 
of life. Disease, then, is a form of starvation 
and rational therapeutics should be directed to 
supplying deficiencies. 

The living cell is a complex solution of the 
tissue salts, and chemical changes within the 
cell are reactions in solution. 

In this work I have endeavored to outline 
the principles involved in cosmic life. I feel 
that it will prove to be a valuable aid to all pro- 
gressive physicians. 

ALEXANDER CHITTICK, M. D. 
Peoria, 111. 



Introduction 



He that hath light within his own pure 
breast may sit in darkness and enjoy the bright 
day. Six thousand years ago, we are told, the 
supreme ruler of the universe looked down 
upon a world enshrouded in the darkness of 
vice and ignorance. Upon the crestfallen brow 
of the man whom he had created in his own 
image was the look of fear and dread. Yea, 
all was chaos and darkness and buffeted by 
conflicting emotions and swayed by false isms 
and doctrines, was sore afraid. The Maker 
was displeased with His handiwork. Then 
from out the heavens, with a peal of thunder 
and a flash of lightning, came the supreme 
command, "LET THERE BE LIGHT," and 
THERE WAS LIGHT. 

Adam, the first GOD MAN, shook off his 
slumbering lethargy and peered forth from the 
door of his cave and saw in a new light the 
promise of his Maker written in the heavens, 
and he was not afraid. He led his Eve forth 
by the hand down into the peaceful valley of 
promise, and forthwith began to disseminate 
the eternal principles of law and truth. 

Oh, thou follower of the healing art, how 
long will you remain in the wilderness of pills 
and plasters surrounded by false isms and dog- 
mas amid the howling of the deadly microbes 
peering forth at intervals from the door of thy 



8 INTRODUCTION 

cave for a glimpse of truth on which to pin 
your faith. Already you may see the beacon 
light of biochemistry which will guide your 
bark across this tempestuous sea to a haven of 
rest, which is built on the solid rock of eternal 
truth. 

The dawn of a New Era is at hand. Already 
the sun of biochemistry gently sheds its rays 
of truth over the troubled sea of therapeutics, 
unchangeable truth which will eventually su- 
persede and triumph over all theories in the 
practice of medicine. 

Life is vibration. This vibration takes place 
between cells, between cellular constituents, 
between organs and between organisms. Vi- 
bration depends upon electric currents which 
pass between positives and negatives. There 
can be no vibration without these two essential 
elements ; they are found everywhere in nature 
and are the basis of all chemical, mechanical 
and physiological changes in the universe. 

Animal life has its beginning in the attrac- 
tion of the negative ovum for the positive 
spermatozoa. All chemical changes depend 
upon the positive and negative atoms in the 
substances, brought together for chemical 
interchange, the positive of one substance leav- 
ing its affinity and going over to the negative 
of another substance for which it has greater 
affinity, thus driving the other out or exchang- 
ing places with same. 

The sun is the great positive body of our 
solar system. All the other planets are nega- 
tives and depend upon the force of gravita- 



INTRODUCTION 9 

tion, positive currents from the sun, to hold 
them in their orbits as, in unerring cycles, they 
roll around the sun. Solar light is caused by 
vibrations in ether, a subtle medium surround- 
ing all molecules of matter and filling space. 

The sun itself may be an opaque body 
emanating electro-positive rays. The latest 
researches in chemistry would indicate that 
atoms are composed of ions, that all ions are 
the same, there being only one elementary sub- 
stance, and the different elements are produced 
by the different grouping of the ions in the 
atoms ; could we discover the one elementary 
substance we could produce synthetically all 
the elements in nature. 

We read in current literature that scientists 
are growing plants under the influence of mag- 
netic currents and are experimenting on inno- 
cent school children with electric currents, and 
find that it enhances the growth of the plants 
and stimulates the brain cells to greater 
activity ; but in so doing they are simply treat- 
ing, or practicing empirically by stimulating 
with electric currents the negative elements on 
the plant or animal cells which effect could be 
brought about naturally by increasing the posi- 
tive elements in these same cells. 

Agricultural chemists are doing great work 
by adding to the exhausted soil the positive 
cell salts which the plant needs for its growth. 

The cell salts, lime, iron, potash, soda, silica 
and magnesia, are the positive elements in the 
animal economy. A deficiency in any of these 



10 INTRODUCTION 

cell salts means a lack of vibration and a break 
in the molecular chain that carries on the 
chemistry of life. The genesis of all life is 
within the cell ; disease and death, being the 
antagonist of health and life, also has its origin 
in the cell. Cell life and activity depends upon 
the tissue salts which are the positive elements 
of the cells. Disease is a form of starvation, 
due to a deficiency in some of the cell salts, 
therefore all rational treatment should be 
directed to the cell and to supplying the 
deficient elements to its exhausted protoplasm 
to give it life and activity. 

The negative elements, albumin and carbo- 
hydrates, serve as the physical basis of the tis- 
sues, while the cell salts determine the kind of 
a cell to be built up. Nerve cells need mag- 
nesia, while the viscidity of the blood depends 
upon potassium, as this salt is a worker in 
fibrine. A lack of this salt will cause the 
fibrine to be thrown out of the vital circulation, 
causing colds and catarrhs. 

Fibrine is produced in the blood chiefly by 
albumin and potassium. Its solubility and 
diffusion depends upon potassium. Calcium 
affects the diffusibility of albumin and also 
helps to hold it in solution. It forms the 
plasmahaut of the cells and helps to hold all 
the other salts in solution. Without this 
salt, in proper proportions, the cells cannot 
maintain their integrity, the viscidity of the 
blood is reduced, and the colloidal membranes 
are weakened, — thus allowing the albumin to 



INTRODUCTION II 

be thrown off through the kidneys as in 
Bright's disease. 

It boils out through the skin and mucous 
membranes causing eczemas and catarrhs. 

The most essential element in organic chem- 
istry is oxygen ; without oxygen the tissues 
soon die, cells break down and discharge their 
cell salts, and acids accumulate, which in turn 
become neutralized by the cell salts causing a 
deficiency in same. 

Iron is the necessary element to hold oxygen 
in solution in the blood. Fever may be caused 
by a lack of this element as the blood working 
with a deficient supply of iron must circulate 
faster to do the same work. For this reason 
iron is a good febrifuge. 

Disease is truly a form of starvation, a 
deficiency in some of the positive elements 
upon which all physiological activity depends. 
The negative elements are found in abundance 
in nature. They are the fuel of the body but 
cannot be utilized by the organism when there 
is a deficiency in the cell salts. 

Thus, a study of biochemistry shows us the 
true cause of disease and enables us to make 
of the healing art an exact science by supplying 
deficiencies. 

Intravenous medication makes it possible to 
apply directly to each kind of tissue the pecul- 
iar salt according to its requirement in disease. 

The true materia medica is to supply de- 
ficiencies in human blood. Upon this solid rock 



12 INTRODUCTION 

the temple of scientific healing may be built. 
And though the microbes howl about the door 
and the waves of skepticism and distrust dash 
against the rock, the temple will stand for ages, 
as its foundation is secure. 



Cellular Physiology 

In order to understand biochemistry from 
a standpoint of physiological therapeutics we 
must make a brief study of the physiology of 
the cell. 

When life made its first appearance on the 
earth's surface, water was everywhere present 
and as a consequence must play an important 
role in the formation of the self-polymerising 
substance from which protoplasm was formed. 
The solvent power of water, its high specific 
heat, its fluid character, and its ionizing power 
over salts, make it determine many of the 
qualities and play an important part in all the 
chemical and physical changes which take 
place in protoplasmic activity which we term 
life. 

Protoplasmic fluid consists of a suspension 
in water of various compounds of complex 
structure. 

Chemical changes within the cell are reac- 
tions in solution and must therefore be deriv- 
able from, and measured in, terms of osmotic 
energy when taking place in the interior of the 
cell, and in surface energy when occurring at 
the dividing surface between the cell and its 
environment ; all manifestations of life are due 
to these two modes of energy. 



14 BIOCHEMISTRY 

No substance can enter a living organism 
except in solution. All metabolistic changes 
must occur between substances in solution. Ox- 
idation goes on in the body in a watery men- 
struum by synthetic gradations producing CO 2 
and H 2 0, the same as in combustion outside of 
the body. 

Cellular energy is due to the total osmotic 
pressure and chemical energy of the dissolved 
cell salts produced by their complete oxidation. 
This being the case, the cell salts become a 
matter of great importance. 

It is a well-known fact that to preserve 
isolated cells, it is necessary to keep them in a 
normal fluid, that is, a fluid having a certain 
molecular concentration. 

Red blood cells when placed in a solution 
of sodium chloride having a greater concen- 
tration than blood plasma will shrink, whereas, 
if placed in a solution of distilled water, they 
will swell up and burst, discharging their 
haemoglobin into the surrounding fluid. The 
actual energy of any cell is determined by its 
molecular concentration. Its potential energy 
depends more upon the nature, than upon the 
amount, of the substances in solution. 

Diversity of function in cells implies diver- 
sity of structure and composition, and every 
active cell is constantly taking up and giving 
out substances to the surrounding medium. 
The living cell, though in constant osmotic 
interchange of water and dissolved substances 
with its surroundings, often possesses a com- 
position differing from that of the latter, which 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 15 

is determined largely by the hereditary dispo- 
sition of the cell itself. Some cells when viewed 
with the microscope, look like a translucent 
mass of protoplasm, others seem to have a 
nucleus, and contractile vaculous openings such 
as a mouth, cilia, and alveoli. In every case 
the protoplasmic mass has a well defined 
border or cell skin separating it from the sur- 
rounding medium. When a cell such as the 
ovum takes up food, its natural tendency is to 
deposit it in the alveoli so that the whole 
structure acquires an alveolar arrangement, 
which is visible in fresh living protoplasm. The 
active streaming movements, which may occur 
in opposite directions, show that the cell is 
composed of a fluid. The shape and resistance 
to deformity of the cell is due to the surface 
tension of the cell. By multiplying surfaces as 
we do in making an emulsion we may rob a 
fluid of most of the properties which are char- 
acteristic of fluids. 

Since all living cells and their parts are made 
up of colloids and cell salts, all physical and 
chemical changes must take place in a colloidal 
medium. We must have a knowledge of the 
behavior of this kind of material. 

A colloid is a substance having character- 
istics of bodies such as gum, albumin, dextrin, 
and gelatin ; they occur either in solution or 
pseudo-solution according to the nature of the 
solvent, also in solid form. Colloids are prac- 
tically infusible in health through animal 
membranes. This property was utilized by 



16 BIOCHEMISTRY 

Graham in separating crystalloids from col- 
loids by dialysis. 

The proximate constituents of living tissues 
are usually termed proteins, fats, and carbo- 
hydrates, and cell salts. The proteins are very 
complex in structure, and nearly always occur 
in combination with nuclein, lecithin, phos- 
phorized fats, carbohydrates, and derivatives 
containing nitrogen. Many properties of col- 
loids suggest that their characteristics depend 
upon the large size of their molecules. The 
molecular diameter of a substance bears a 
definite ratio to its molecular weight. The 
molecular weight of the protein haemoglobin 
is in the neighborhood of 16,000. Osmotic 
pressure and molecular weight of substances 
have a distinct ratio. The osmotic pressure 
of the proteins, or serum, points to a molecular 
weight of 30,000, and nuclein, lecithin, fat, car- 
bohydrates, and protein which compose the 
cytoplasm have a molecular weight of 100,000. 
A molecule whose molecular weight to 100,000 
might be rendered visible by some method of 
illumination on such as the ultra-microscope of 
Zigmondy. Molecules of this size would 
possess the properties of matter in mass. They 
would have a surface of measurable extent 
and their relation to the solvent surrounding 
them would be determined by the laws of 
absorption rather than by the laws of molecular 
attraction. The colloids which make up the 
animal cell have properties which would 
suggest mechanical suspension in some cases, 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 17 

and in others partake of the nature of chemical 
reactions. 

In a solution the molecules are equally 
diffused throughout the molecules of the sol- 
vent and energy is required to separate other 
than filtration and gravitation. The force 
required is the osmotic pressure of the solution, 
consequently we must regard osmotic pressure 
as a distinguishing feature of a true solution. 

The colloids in blood serum containing about 
seven per cent, proteins have an osmotic 
pressure of 25 mm., corresponding to a molecu- 
lar weight of about 30,000. Colloidal solutions, 
such as starch and glycogen, display no 
osmotic pressure. 

All colloids have a property called imbibi- 
tion, which in many cases cannot be distin- 
guished from the process of solution. This 
imbibition pressure increases with the concen- 
tration of the colloids. 

The colloid can be precipitated in association 
with a certain amount of the solvent, or the 
whole mass turned into a gelatin by heat, 
mechanical agitation, or the addition of elec- 
trolytes. 

Colloidal particles in this precipitation in 
many cases carry electric charges like the ions 
in a solution of sodium chloride. 

The mutual repulsion of the particles thus 
brought about helps to keep them in suspen- 
sion. By the passage of a current, or the addi- 
tion of an oppositely charged colloid, this 
mutual repulsion is done away with, and the 
particles fall to the bottom as a precipitate. 



18 BIOCHEMISTRY 

The essence of this change that has taken 
place consists in the conversion of a colloid 
with unlimited powers for swelling into one 
whose powers for imbibition are limited, as is 
the case with animal material like white fibrous 
connective tissue. 

Any fluid at its surface possesses different 
qualities to that of its interior. Any dissolved 
substance which diminished the surface ten- 
sion of the solvent tends to accumulate at the 
surface. This is how cell life begins as seen 
in the ovum. 

In a hydrosol, such as albumin, every fluid 
mass of colloid in the body will tend the 
surface to become coated with gelatin or pel- 
licle which will resist deformation and exten- 
sion, and the properties of which will 
determine the access of fluids or solids to the 
hydrosol within. 

The formation of such gelatin or pellicles at 
the periphery of every mass of protoplasm 
determines the production of a surface ten- 
sion, which will account for the rigidity of 
different forms of living tissue, and determines 
the permeability of different cells to the 
entrance or passage of the cell salts and other 
substances between cells and between the 
intercellular spaces, the blood vessels, lympha- 
tics, intestinal villa, and controls the excretion 
and secretion of the various glands of the body. 

A study of the chemistry of the cell gives 
us an idea of its behavior according to the 
nature of its environment, since the relation 
of the cell to its environment, as well as the 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 19 

interrelation of its parts among themselves, 
must depend upon the qualities of the pellicles 
bounding the surface of separation. 

This bounding membrane is termed the 
Plasmahaut, or cellskin. It is a true colloidal 
membrane, and all substances passing through 
same must be governed by the laws laid down 
in physics for colloidal membranes. 

The permeability of such membranes to any 
given substance is conditioned upon the solu- 
bility of the substances in the membrane, or of 
the membrane in the substance. 

A colloidal membrane composed of protein, 
or gelatin, or allied substances, is easily perme- 
able by water, or any substance soluble in 
water, such as salts and sugar. 

The plasmahaut plays an important role in 
maintaining the privacy of cell life, since it is 
by means of this layer that the cell enters into 
relation with its environment. 

The cell wall differs considerably in its 
chemical composition from the protoplasm out 
of which it has been formed. In plants it con- 
sists of cellulose, a carbohydrate substance 
(C. 6 H. 10 O. 5 ). In other cases it is composed of 
calcium carbonate or other lime salts, from 
silica or chitin, and may be perforated to allow 
the passage of protoplasm between the adja- 
cent cells. 

A cell which lives in a fluid environment 
must take the greater part of its food from this 
medium in soluble form. 

The superficial layer of protoplasmic cells is 
of lipoid character, and is composed chiefly of 



20 BIOCHEMISTRY 

cholesterin and lecithin, and only dyes that are 
soluble in cholesterin and lecithin are used for 
intravitum staining. 

Consequently, substances like toxins, acids, 
bile salts, and ether, which dissolve lecithin 
and cholesterin, cause a destruction of the red 
cells of the blood by dissolving their superficial 
layer. 

The inorganic constituents of blood serum 
play an important part in controlling the heart 
beat. The salts of potassium, calcium, and 
sodium, have a specific action in regulating 
cardiac activity. We may inject a pint of 
sodium chloride solution into the veins with 
little ill effects, when a few cubic centimeters 
of potassium chloride may cause death from 
heart failure. At the same time, we may give 
an intravenous injection of sodium, potassium, 
magnesium, calcium and ferrum, if it be a 
harmonious solution of these salts in the 
approximate proportions in which they exist in 
normal blood, with no ill-efTects because these 
cell salts are the positive elements of the body; 
they are acid binding and eliminating; they 
enter into every cell and tissue of the organism. 
These tissue salts carry on the chemistry of 
life. Physiological chemistry goes on within 
the cell and intercellularly and uses as its 
reagents the cell salts. When any of these 
salts are missing, the molecular chain which 
carries on the chemistry of life is broken. 

In order to understand the importance of 
these cell salts, we must go back to the pre- 
Cambrian period of the world's history when 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 21 

organized life first made its appearance on the 
globe. 

The first animal life consisted of a speck of 
protoplasm, a unicellular animal moving about 
by an amoeboid motion having a colon or hole 
through the cell to admit sea water from which 
it subsisted by absorption mainly of the cell 
salts. 

The approximate proportions in which the 
tissue salts exist in the animal economy today 
are about the same as the sea waters of the 
pre-Cambrian time, but evaporation and intake 
of water carrying salts from the rivers have 
caused considerable condensation of the sea 
waters since that time. Since protoplasm was 
formed at that time by some polymerising 
organic compound in sea water, it stands to 
reason that it should contain saline constitu- 
ents corresponding in proportion and amount 
to those of the sea water at that pre-Cambrian 
time, but evaporation and intake of water 
carrying salts from the rivers have caused con- 
siderable condensation of the sea waters since 
that time. 

The process of segregation and reproduction 
by self division in cell life would indicate that 
the saline constituents of protoplasm have not 
changed materially since life first made its 
appearance on the earth. While sea water has 
changed from the precipitation of calciums, 
chalk and potassium. 

A very interesting experiment to prove the 
value of the cell salts to living protoplasm or 



22 BIOCHEMISTRY 

animal life is to take, for instance, such sea 
animals as the star fish, gamarrus or sea-slugs 
and put them in distilled water ; respiration and 
other signs of life will cease in a few moments ; 
they again revive when placed in sea water 
within a few minutes. In solutions of the 
proper proportions of NaCl and CaCl, the 
animals lives as long as two days and when 
MgClo was added they lived as long as in sea 
water. 

I have also taken guinea pigs and rabbits 
and fed them on foods from which the tissue 
salts had been removed. The animals did not 
lose weight but died almost as soon as they 
would have from starvation. 

From these experiments we must conclude 
that the cell salts are of vital importance to the 
cell and to all animal life of which the cell is 
the basis, as the only difference between the 
unicellular amoeba and man is the number 
of cells. 

The colon was the first step in evolution as 
it became necessary in the scale of animal life; 
that is, multicellular animals with powers of 
rapid motion and a possible life outside of 
sea water had to have a body gravity to hold a 
fluid for the storage and supply base for the 
cells, the same as they were in the habit of 
taking from the waters of the sea. 

The evolution of the alimentary canal was 
followed by a circulatory apparatus and other 
organs designed to maintain the balance of the 
circulating medium under varying internal 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 23 

conditions. A respiratory system making it 
possible to live outside of the water and absorb 
oxygen from the air. With this complex struc- 
ture the animal began its migrations from the 
sea and to subsist on vegetable matter. Thus 
the vegetable kingdom bridges the way from 
the inorganic to the organic. From the sea 
to land. It transmutes the same organic salts 
found in the sea from which the protozoa lives 
by absorption in sea water, with the aid of 
sunlight, carbon and oxygen from the soil, 
into a form in which the wandering animal of 
the sea can incorporate them into his organism 
by the means of a colon. 

Having established the characteristics of 
colloidal membranes and taking into considera- 
tion that all the secretions and excretions of 
the body either to supply the cells with nutri- 
tion or carry off the waste products of metabo- 
lism will have to be governed by the physical 
laws which apply to colloidal membranes in 
general, we will go a step farther. 

In the higher animals the cells of their 
bodies are bathed by an internal medium by 
which they are nourished and into which they 
discharge their waste products. 

The average consistency of this internal 
medium must be kept at a normal balance so 
that the cells may discharge their functions 
properly and that chemical products may be 
produced by one set of cells that modify the 
function of other cells in remote parts of the 
body. 



24 BIOCHEMISTRY 

The process of excretion in animals is asso- 
ciated with a loss of water to the organism. 

The gaseous metabolites such as C0 2 are 
carried off through the lungs. Most of the 
solids such as urea, uric acid, etc., are thrown 
off in a watery solution by way of the kidneys 
and skin. 

The intake of water and salts required by 
the organism is governed by the central ner- 
vous system as great loss of fluids by sweating 
or by diarrhoea and hemorrhages is followed 
by thirst, but on the other hand the state of 
depletion of the organism has very little to do 
with the absorption of water and weak saline 
fluids from the alimentary canal. 

The watery contents of the body in health 
will remain constant regardless of the amount 
of water taken daily, as the kidneys regulate 
the water supply of the organism apart from 
that determined by the appetite. 

The chief absorption of water occurs in the 
small intestine. The passage of fluids from the 
gut is directly into the blood vessels between 
the intervening layer of columnar epithelial 
cells, consequently is governed to a certain 
extent by the law of osmosis except in the 
case of a solution of NaCl, as this salt passes 
directly through the membrane although it 
may be slightly hypertonic ; however, in the 
case of colloidal membranes, if we place a solu- 
tion on one side of the membrane that is 
hypertonic and on the other side a solution of 
the same salt that is hypotonic, the salts will 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 25 

pass from one side of the membrane to the 
other until they become neutral. This is espe- 
cially the case with sodium chloride, as this 
salt passes easily through the mucous mem- 
brane and the fluid is rapidly absorbed. If on 
the other hand salts such as sodium sulphate, 
which passes with difficulty through the cell 
lining, are present in solution, the osmotic 
pressure due to the dissolved salts continues 
as a force opposing the absorptive activity of 
the cells, and water will be absorbed until the 
molecular concentration of the salt solution 
over the blood plasma produces on osmotic 
pressure or attraction for water which counter 
balances the absorbing force of the intestinal 
epithelium. 

The internal media of the body is composed 
of three distinct fluids namely, the blood, 
lymph and tissue fluid. 

The blood circulates in a system of closed 
tubes separated from the tissues by a layer of 
endothelium. 

The lymph is contained in a system of closed 
endothelial tubes which empty into the sub- 
clavian vein. The tissue fluid fills all the spaces 
of the body coming in contact with the tissue 
cells furnishing them with nutrition and receiv- 
ing their waste products. 

The intercellular spaces and lymphatics have 
a very important function to perform in the 
way of furnishing nutrition to the cells, which 
would be a physical impossibility to supply 
with a circulation like the blood vessels. They 



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death : The first blood will differ from the 
latter portions, as it will contain more corpus- 
cles and a larger content of protein. This is 
what takes place in any hemorrhage, and shows 
the manner in which the organism maintains 
the balance of circulating fluid in an emergen- 
cy, in order to keep the blood density at a 
standard of 1060 which is very necessary to 
the commonwealth of the body. 

In health there is a gradual passage of the 
plasma rich in protein into the intercellular 
spaces where it bathes all the cells with which 
it comes in contact, receiving their metabolites. 
Portions of the intracellular fluid pass on into 
the lymphatics, where it continues the process 
of nutrition in the superficial tissues of the 
body as it passes on to be emptied again into 
the blood stream in the large veins at the root 
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CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 27 

products into the circulation and receives a 
fresh supply of oxygen to begin its cycle anew. 

The foregoing table shows the approximate 
constituents of blood cells, intercellular fluid 
and cows milk per thousand grammes. 

The production of the tissue fluid is limited 
to the region of the capillaries and small veins. 

The endothelial wall of the capillaries is 
composed of a layer of flat cells which abound 
on the adjacent cells, thus leaving a slender 
crack between the cells. These cells are held 
together by a cement substance. This struc- 
ture would suggest a leakage between the cells 
of lymph and plasma. This cement substance 
is composed principally of calcium. When 
there is a deficiency of these salts in the blood 
the leakage becomes abnormal, admitting red 
blood corpuscles which pass from the blood 
vessels along with colloids. 

This capillary wall allows the passage of 
practically all crystalloids, though the nature 
of the salt governs the ease of passage through 
the membrane. Sodium chloride passes with 
greater ease and rapidity than sodium sulphate. 

Any sudden formation of soluble substances 
outside of the vessels will raise the molecular 
concentration of the tissue fluid and draw 
water from the blood vessels into the tissue 
spaces. On the other hand, an intravenous 
injection of dextrose or sodium sulphate will 
draw water from the tissue spaces, and these 
in turn will draw water from the cells of the 
tissues; this will bring about a condition of 
hydraemic plethora, and the irritation of the 



28 BIOCHEMISTRY 

sodium sulphate on the kidneys will cause the 
elimination of the excess of fluid by these 
organs. This is a good treatment in all forms 
of dropsy. The injection of a small quantity of 
a concentrated solution of sodium chloride will 
have the same efTect, as it will increase the 
density of the blood drawing water from the 
tissues of the cells. 

There is no need of delving farther and tak- 
ing up more space with the intricate structures 
of the human body. 

The constituents of the human body are the 
perfect principals : oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, 
lime, iron, potash, soda, silica, magnesia, etc. 
The tissue salts, lime, iron, soda, magnesia, 
potash, and silica, are the positive principals 
of the organism, and every change in the 
organism associated with vital activity depends 
upon these salts. 

I have shown in the first part of this chapter 
that the first forms of animal life existed in sea 
water, and lived by absorption of these salts 
from the surrounding medium. 

If the complex structures of all the forms of 
animal life that appear upon the globe today 
can be developed by a process of evolution from 
these salts as a basis mingling with the gases 
and fluids surrounding the earth, it stands to 
reason that every disease is due to a lack of 
some of these salts in the organism, and that 
every disease that is curable may be cured by 
supplying the deficiency. 

There is an abundance of the other constitu- 
ents of the body outside of the five principal 



CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY 29 

cell salts, magnesium, ferrum, calcium, potas- 
sium, and sodium. With these supplied to the 
cells in the proper proportions, they are 
enabled to take from water, air, and food, the 
other substances that constitute the body. 
Furthermore, the best results are obtained from 
supplying them in the form in which they are 
found in nature. Nature does not furnish the 
roots of the plant with starch, sugar, and 
chlorophyl, to produce these substances in the 
plant, but, on the contrary, she supplies a few 
molecules of the phosphates, iron, sunlight, 
water and air, and we have the complete plant 
in all its beauty and complex structure, built 
up from the soil by a synthetic process. Yet 
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like 
one of these. 

The wise physician imitates the laws of 
nature and studies her methods. The physician 
who treats causes will relieve effects. Those 
who treat effects or symptoms, do it on account 
of either indolence or ignorance, both of which 
are inexcusable and criminal in twentieth cen- 
tury civilization. The physician who treats 
effects reminds me of the little boy who was 
feeding his pet cat milk and delicacies to relieve 
a squall that was caused by the cat having its 
tail caught in the door. Perhaps if he had 
given the cat a hypodermic of morphine, or 
Oslerized it, he would have succeeded in reliev- 
ing the squall at least. Pepsin for indigestion ; 
coaltar products for neuralgias ; quinine for 
chills ; calomel for sluggish liver, and I might 
go on and enumerate hundreds of other empir- 



30 BIOCHEMISTRY 

ical lines of treatment that are just as silly as 
the boy's treatment of the cat. 

Wherever there is a nerve dyscrasia, there is 
a lack of ferrum, magnesium, potassium, or 
sodium. The muscles have the same cell salts, 
with the addition of potassium chloride. 

The master cell salt of connective tissue is 
silica, and of the elastic tissue, calcium. The 
basic salts of bone cells are calcium and 
magnesium phosphates. Calcium phosphate is 
found in the cell-skin of all the cells of the 
body, and a lack of this salt will cause a break- 
ing down of the cell walls, like what is found 
in dropsies, catarrhs, Bright's disease, etc. 
Considerable experimenting is being done with 
the colloidal metals, such as colloidal copper, 
in carcinoma. This is along the right lines, as 
disease usually begins in the interspaces from 
underoxidation, and the best results will be 
obtained from substances that will permeate 
colloidal membranes. However, I get good 
results with the tissue salts, as they promote 
oxidation and bring about a normal blood den- 
sity with from three to six injections in ten 
days' time. 

Calcium is being used with good results in 
cancer, and my Haematone has shown marked 
results in cancer cases. 

In all forms of diseases it is the chemical 
effect of the cell salts in the blood that helps 
to bring about normal metabolism and restore 
the patient to health. 



Pathology 



Life is vibration. The animal and the vege- 
table kingdoms are truly transformers of 
energy. The positive elements in all forms of 
protoplasmic life are the tissue salts, sodium 
potassium, magnesium, ferrum, and calcium. 

We have shown in a previous chapter how 
a self-polymerising substance, with the aid of 
salts, produced the first forms of vital activity. 

Life, electricity, and chemistry, are cor- 
related. Electricity can be produced chemi- 
cally, and chemical changes can be brought 
about by electric currents. Life is produced 
by electric energy, and the nervous system is 
a complex system of electric wires and relay 
stations. 

Nature, without the aid of dope or doctors, 
has elaborated on the first specks of living 
protoplasm, and by a system of evolution and 
and multiplication of cells produced the man. 

If we would live according to the laws of 
nature, subsist on natural substances in a 
natural manner, we would have no further need 
for doctors. 

The drug habit comes from overeating and 
underbreathing. Men make of th°ir stomachs 
human garbage cans, stuff their hides like 
pelicans, breath like hibernating animals, go to 
bed at midnight and toss about with a night- 



32 BIOCHEMISTRY 

mare, awake in the morning with sour stomach 
and indigestion. He takes a couple of com- 
pound cathartic pills, and repeats the same 
process the next day. Soon he must consult a 
specialist, who tells him he has a cancer of the 
stomach, tapeworm, cirrhosis of the liver, and 
Bright's disease. He has his stomach, appendix, 
and kidney removed. The operation is success- 
ful, but the patient dies. 

It is difficult to improve on nature. The 
first law of health is peace of mind. Unhap- 
piness is an irritant. It effects the circulation 
by causing a construction of the arterioles, 
thus interfering with elimination and oxida- 
tion, causing a breaking down of the tissues 
and disease. 

Keep happy and contented; in the moments 
of good will the mind is calm, the circulation 
is free, the pores are open, and secretions 
natural. Let an angry passion rise, or a 
spasm of hate, jealousy, or fear, sweep across 
the dome of thought, and there is a tumultu- 
ous pumping of the heart, followed by shock 
with vascular constriction. The secretions 
are stopped and the waste products of meta- 
bolism retained in the system, causing disease 
in the form of congestion and fever — nature's 
method of restoring equilibrium. 

If the secretions of the body are completely 
checked and retained in the system for fifteen 
minutes it will cause death. 

A cancer may be caused by hate, anger, or 
fear, in the same manner. Very often during 
shock of constricted circulation, emboli are 



PATHOLOGY 33 

formed in end arteries, thus causing a stop- 
page in the circulation. Nature tries to relieve 
the condition by sending more blood to the 
part. This increased nutrition kept up for 
any length of time causes a growth or multi- 
plication of prematurely developed cells at 
this point. This hyperplasia of runt cells in 
connective tissue is characteristic of cancer. 
The secretions of cancer are acid. They must 
be neutralized, the patient is underoxidized. 
The patches of embryonic cells, which also 
cause cancer when fertilized with the cell 
salts, become normal and disappear. 

The difference in the tissues and cells, that 
are found in parts of the body, is due to the 
kind of inorganic salts which make up these 
cells. 

The chief of the tissue salts is ferrum phos- 
phate. Its function is to maintain the oxygen 
tension of the organism. I have explained in 
my chapter on oxidation how very important 
this is. So whenever you have inflammation 
fever, rapid heart action and respiration, 
sclerosis of the tissues or blood vessels, 
obesity or loss of weight from improper assi- 
milation or oxidation, catarrhal conditions 
with accumulation of uric acid in the system, 
coughs, colds or congestions, the indicated 
remedy is ferrum phosphate. 

CALCIUM. — Calcium is the chief salt in 
the cell skin or plasmahaut, and upon this 
substance the cell structure depends largely, 
as well as the bony structure of the animal. 
In the first sea animals a skeleton was com- 



34 BIOCHEMISTRY 

posed of deposits of lime around the cells. 
The elasticity of the cell skin as well as the 
elasticity of the muscular and connective 
tissues depends upon lime salt. 

The interspaces of the endothelial cells are 
minous serum and fibrin by the tissues and 
due to a lack of this salt that we get a break- 
ing down of the cell walls formed by the 
endothelium. This cell wall forms the col- 
loidal membranes of the body. A break in 
this membrane allows the exudation of albu- 
minous serum and fibrin bv the tissues and 
glands, thus causing dropsy, albuminuria, 
and catarrhal conditions in various parts of 
the body, according to the tissue and organs. 

As this salt is acted upon by acid conditions 
of the system, and acid conditions are caused 
by deficient oxidation largely, we can see how 
a lack of ferrum phosphate will be followed 
by breaking down of the cell wall and 
destruction of the plasmahaut, as nature 
utilizes the alkaline salts to neutralize the 
acids when they are not eliminated by oxida- 
tion. Lime unites with albumin to form the 
elastic fibers of the body, as well as the cell 
skin of the cells. 

Fifty-seven per cent of the bony framework 
of the body is composed of calcium phosphate. 
This salt increases the secretion of the glands 
of the stomach, tones up the elastic tissues of 
the body, thus preventing varicose veins and 
static conditions of the fluids of the body. It 
is indicated in rachitis, subinvolution of the 
uterus, boils, abscesses, and mucous patches. 



PATHOLOGY 35 

It hastens the process of suppuration and, 
with albumin, forms a wall around the 
abscess. It is therefore indicated in all puru- 
lent discharges. 

The phosphorus of lecithin in food is con- 
verted into glycerinophosphoric acid before 
assimilation. It unites with calcium to form 
calcium glycerine phosphate. Calcium in- 
creases the blood density and is a sovereign 
remedy in haemophilia and all haemorrhagic 
conditions. 

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE.— This salt is 
a worker in fibrin and without it no fibrin can 
be formed. Fibrin is an albuminous substance 
in combination with potassium chloride, 
formed by the action of fibrin ferment in the 
presence of oxygen. The departure from the 
normal oxygen balance in the blood increases 
or diminishes the amount of fibrin as the case 
may be. A diminished amount of oxygen in the 
blood dilutes the fibrin to such a consistency 
that it may pass through the colloidal mem- 
branes, or interspaces between the endothelial 
cells, and as a consequence we find it in all 
inflammatory exudations of the serous and 
mucous membranes, as in pleurisy, catarrh, 
pneumonia, croup, etc. 

Potassium, iron, and calcium, are necessary 
to hold the fibrin of the blood in solution. 

In septic fevers, like pneumonia, where the 
toxins destroy the plasmahaut of the cells of 
the blood with a consequent precipitation of 
the cell salts, we get a defibrination of the 



36 BIOCHEMISTRY 

blood. An intravenous injection of these salts 
in a solution of sodium chloride has proven 
beneficial in pneumonia when kept up daily 
until the disease had run its course. 

Potassium phosphate is the salt on which 
all nervous energy depends. After excessive 
nervous strain we find this salt in the urine. 
The co-worker in nerve structure and energy 
with potassium phosphate is magnesium 
phosphate. If these salts were used judiciously 
by physicians the rate of insanity could be 
decreased forty per cent. 

The lecithin of food is converted into glycer- 
ophosphate which unites with potassium 
and albumin in the presence of oxygen, creat- 
ing nerve fluid and the nerve cells of the gray 
matter. 

In all forms of insanity and nervous break- 
downs, such as hysteria, chorea, delirium 
tremens, brain-fag, and neurasthenia, showing 
itself in the form of melancholy, anxiety, 
insomnia, and fainting, potassium and its co- 
worker magnesium are the indicated cell 
salts. 

When there is a lack of sulphate and 
phosphate of potassium in the nerve cells they 
are not as active to nervous sensations eman- 
ating from the various parts of the organism, 
and as a consequence the vital activity of the 
organs are deprived of the responsitory stim- 
ulus from the brain. For example, it is the 
irritation set up by carbon dioxide gas in the 
system that causes respiration. If the brain 
does not react to this stimulus we have a 



PATHOLOGY 37 

suffocative feeling, a desire for cool air. In 
the same manner retention of the urine and 
constipation, sexual disorders, thirstlessness, 
and many other disorders arising from 
deficient oxidation, are caused. 

Since the reaction of the brain to nervous 
stimuli depends greatly on the salts of potas- 
sium and magnesium, we must conclude that 
these tissue salts rank next to ferrum, as per- 
fect oxidation depends as much on these salts 
as it does on iron. 

The accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in 
the system will prevent oxidation and cause 
cyanosis and breaking down of the tissues if 
not eliminated, and it cannot be eliminated 
properly unless the brain responds to stimuli 
of the C0 2 , which it cannot do when deficient 
in these salts. 

MAGNESIUM.— The chief element in the 
white nerve fibers is magnesium phosphate. 
It is also a constituent in the blood corpuscles, 
muscles, bones, and teeth. It unites with 
albumin in the presence of oxygen and phos- 
phorus to form nerve fluid and build up the 
cells of the white nerve fibers. Calcium phos- 
phate is a co-worker with this salt in spasmodic 
conditions, neuralgia, sharp shooting pains, 
tremor, illusions of the sense of sight, twitch- 
ing of the muscles, amblyopia, ozena, globus- 
hysterious, neuralgia of stomach and ovaries, 
asthma, nervous chills, and epilepsy. 

All conditions due to a lack of poise between 
the motory and sensory nerve fibers are due to 
a deficiency of this salt. 



38 BIOCHEMISTRY 

The salts of ferrum, calcium, magnesium, 
and potassium may be given in combination as 
they are very closely related and dependent 
upon each other from a standpoint of biopathy. 

THE SODIUM SALTS.— Sodium chloride 
ranks next to phosphate of lime in quantity in 
the body. It is found in all the cells and fluids 
of the organism. 

This salt in solution in water passes easily 
through all the membranes and is associated 
with all vital activity. 

The balance of the aqueous constituents of 
the organism is maintained by this salt. It 
aids elimination of waste material and is found 
in all the secretions and excretions. Sodium 
chloride is secreted by the glomeruli, but the 
greater portion of it is reabsorbed by the 
tubules, thus the normal balance of this salt 
is maintained in the organism. 

The presence of sodium chloride is necessary 
to cell division. This salt is split up in the 
blood, the sodium uniting with carbonic acid 
forming sodium carbonate, and the chlorine set 
free unites with hydrogen in water forming 
dilute hydrochloric acid, which aids in the 
process of digestion in the stomach. Sodium, 
ferrum, and calcium are the chief elements in 
the production of new cells. We find iron in 
the serum of chlorotics and anaemics, the pre- 
cise cause of these conditions being the preci- 
pitation and elimination of the iron from the 
system due to a lack of calcium and of sodium 
phosphates which allows the breaking down of 
the cell skin or plasmahaut. 



PATHOLOGY 39 

Sodium chloride is the sovereign remedy in 
all diseases of the mucous membranes, such as 
catarrh, leucorrhoea, coryza, and waterbrash. 
Sodium phosphate is found in the blood corpus- 
cles, in the nerve cells, and in all the tissues 
and fluids of the body. It neutralizes the acids, 
combines with carbolic acid, and carries it to 
the lungs where it is eliminated. It splits up 
lactic acid into carbonic acid and water. It 
splits up uric acid, forming sodium urate. It 
saponifies the fatty acids and stimulates glan- 
dular activity. 

SODIUM PHOSPHATE.— This salt stimu- 
lates all glandular activity, especially the liver, 
pancreas, and kidneys. Sodium sulphate ex- 
tracts water from the tissues and cells along 
with waste material and causes its elimination. 
It stimulates the epithelial cells in every part 
of the organism. The presence of this salt in 
the secretions irritates the sensory nerves of 
the eliminating organs and promotes the elim- 
ination from same. This salt has an osmotic 
pressure much greater than NaCl and cannot 
pass easily through colloidal membranes, hence 
draws water to itself into the circulation caus- 
ing its elimination. In all forms of dropsy and 
congestions of the glandular organs this salt 
is the indicated remedy. Where the liver is 
twice its normal size it will reduce it to normal 
in a few days. If given internally in large doses 
it extracts water from the tissues and causes 
watery diarrhoea, therefore if given for absorp- 
tion it must be given in small doses, diluted. An 
intravenous injection of this salt will extract 



40 BIOCHEMISTRY 

water from the intercellular space, which in 
turn will extract water from the cells causing 
its elimination by the kidneys. This is the treat- 
ment in dropsy. It is indicated in chills, dropsy, 
cirrhosis of the liver, leukemia, hydraemia, 
influenza, and all aqueous discharges from the 
mucous membranes, Hodgkin's disease and 
tubercular glands. Lactic acid coagulates albu- 
min in the lymphatic glands, as it does in milk, 
if it is not split up by sodium phosphate. 
Therefore enlargement of the lymphatic glands 
means a lack of sodium phosphate. When the 
deposits in the glands become gaseous, mag- 
nesium phosphate is the indicated salt. 

SILICA. — The only salts of this substance 
that are soluble in water are sodium silicate 
and potassium silicate. When an aqueous solu- 
tion of these salts comes in contact with the 
hydrochloric acid of the system, a gelatinous 
salicic hydroxide is formed. A solution of 
ammonium chloride will have the same effect. 
This salicic hydroxide is found in the hair, 
nails, skin, periosteum, and neurilemma. The 
connective tissues lose their tenacity and 
ability to contract when there is a lack of this 
salt in them. As a result inimical substances 
become lodged in the tissues and form suppu- 
rating centers for abscesses, boils, pimples, and 
blackheads ; from a lack of tonicity in the con- 
nective tissues these abscesses are latent and 
slow in coming to a head. This salt is indicated 
in blind abscesses, boils, pimples, blackheads, 
carbuncles, swellings, indurations, and diseases 
of the connective tissues in general. 



PATHOLOGY 41 

Calcium phosphate is a co-worker with this 
salt, and while silica hastens the process of 
suppuration, calcium sulphate brings the pro- 
cess to a speedy close. 

I have given the physiological action and the 
pathological states of the tissues due to a lack 
of the five principal cell salts which are the 
positive elements in all the chemical and physi- 
cal changes in the protoplasmic life. These 
elements are all found in animal and vegetable 
economy in the inorganic form. The iron of 
the red blood cells is a mineral iron which can 
be proven by precipitating from the blood and 
heating, which would destroy iron in any other 
form but the mineral, and after which it reacts 
to the guiacum test. 

Chlorosis and anaemia are caused by a break- 
ing down of the cell skin and the precipitation 
of the iron of the blood with its elimination. 
This is proven by the finding of iron in the 
serum of the venous blood of these patients, 
also in the urine. What they need in combina- 
tion with iron is calcium and potassium, in fact 
all the cell salts. 

If given internally, all the cell salts should be 
given in minimum doses in order that they may 
be absorbed through the colloidal membranes, 
as a concentrated solution has a greater 
osmotic pressure than a dilute solution. In 
fact its pressure may be greater than the tissue 
fluids, and may thus prevent assimilation. 
However, they should be given in appreciable 
doses, as whatever is not used by the cells will 



42 BIOCHEMISTRY 

be deposited in the serum of the intercellular 
spaces for further use and any excess elimi- 
nated from the system. It is my belief that an 
excess of any salt given intravenously has a 
more direct route to the eliminating organs and 
will be eliminated quicker than if given intra- 
muscularly or by way of the stomach. 

As the system is most likely to be short in 
phosphates, and this is the form in which we 
find most of tissue salts in the system, I use the 
soluble phosphates of the cell salts. The car- 
bonates, chlorides, and sulphates will be 
formed more easily by the vital processes going 
on in the organism. 

This is pre-eminently the era of biologic and 
physiologic chemistry. The chemist is having 
his day in court. And as medicine is nowadays 
striking her roots deeper and broader than ever 
before into biology, she is naturally coming 
more and more into contact with, and under 
the jurisdictional influence of, biologic chem- 
istry. It is inevitable, therefore, that she must, 
sooner or later, take cognizance, in a way that 
she has never yet done, of the part played by 
the mineral salts and their solutions in the body 
chemistry. It is simply unthinkable that these 
salts occupy the neutral, passive, trivial place 
that our indifference has been in the habit of 
ascribing to them. We are accustomed to say 
that water forms more than one-half of the 
body weight ; and that is, of course, an import- 
ant truth. But the actual, chemical fact is 
that nowhere in the body does water exist in 



PATHOLOGY 43 

the form of pure, unadulterated water, but 
always it is a solvent of mineral salts. So that 
it would be more correct to say that mineral 
salt solutions form considerably more than 
one-half of the body weight. 

This solution of mineral salts is practically 
omnipresent in the tissues, bathing every cell, 
entering into the composition of every cell, 
taking part in every process, anabolic, kata- 
bolic, and metabolic. Even though we ascribed 
to it no other office than that of holding in sus- 
pension the other constituents of the body, still 
it would be necessary to reckon with it as a 
momentous factor in physiology, because of the 
tremendous influence exercised upon meta- 
bolism by osmosis, of which the mineral salts 
are practically the only exponents. One has 
but to consider the immense importance of 
isotonicity as between the serum and the red 
corpuscles of the blood, to get an inkling of the 
probable range of function included in this 
simplest of all aspects of the mineral salts. We 
know, moreover, of at least one or two 
instances of catalyzing role played by these 
same salts, as, for example, the influence of the 
calcium salts in coagulation of the blood. And 
this opens up a long vista of further possibili- 
ties in the functionating of the body salts, 
without having thus far invoked the actual 
chemistry of the salts at all. Of the latter we 
have a few commonly known instances, such as 
the digestive role of sodium chloride, the car- 
diac office of the calcium salts, etc. But of the 
thousand and one chemical reactions to which 



44 BIOCHEMISTRY 

the mineral salts are doubtless parties in the 
obscurer processes of metabolism and body 
chemistry, we are as yet sadly in ignorance. 

Clearly, the mineral salts are much more 
important elements in the constitution of the 
body than we have heretofore given them 
credit for being, and call for a great deal more 
assiduous study than we have hitherto devoted 
to them. It is well enough to smile at those 
who burn the human body down to its mineral 
ash and discard all the rest as transient and 
unimportant ; but it is equally foolish for us to 
dissolve (figuratively speaking) all the mineral 
salts out of the body an^l expect to account for 
the phenomena of health and disease without 
them. It is high time that medical science 
turned serious attention to this question of the 
body salts and their significance. And, indeed, 
there are indications in various quarters that it 
is already being done. Medicine will yet justify 
and utilize the work of the biologic chemists in 
this direction. 

The intravenous use of the tissue salts by 
me for the past twelve years has proven to my 
satisfaction their value as therapeutic agents. 
On one occasion a patient whom I had placed 
in the hospital for an operation for appendicitis 
was given an injection the day before the oper- 
ation was to be performed as a general blood 
tonic. All symptoms cleared up and the patient 
recovered without the operation. 

The great secret in the treatment of disease 
is to keep the blood neutral or slightly alkaline 
as most all pain arising from the accumulation 



PATHOLOGY 45 

of waste products in the system is due to the 
acid reaction they cause. In all fevers the blood 
is acid in reaction. Of course by regulating the 
diet and cleaning out the alimentary canal you 
remove the cause of this acid formation, except 
where it is contraindicated by pathological 
lesions, such as appendicitis and ulceration of 
the bowel in general, then it is best to flush out 
the colon with enemas. Calcium creosote is 
good to use in these enemas as it is healing, 
antiacid, antiseptic, and astringent, and no 
other drug has so many virtues and so few 
faults as Calcium. 



Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics 

Hippocrates is acknowledged by all as the 
"Father of Medicine," but no doubt the Egyp- 
tians were versed in anatomy and medicine. 

The Papyrus Ebers written several thousand 
years ago and concealed for four thousand 
years between the legs of a mummy has 
revealed the science of medicine as practiced by 
the Egyptians. 

In this work we find a large portion of the 
diseases known to modern science classified, as 
well as a list of drugs from the animal, vege- 
table, and mineral kingdoms, covering pretty 
well the materia medica of today, prescribed 
for their bodily ailments. 

Medical literature then was considered 
sacred and only accessible to the priests and 
their matriculates. 

Moses, having the education of an Egyptian 
prince, was versed in medicine and no doubt 
studied the Papyrus Ebers. 

Among the savage tribes disease was con- 
sidered the work of evil spirits. Thus, in all 
lands and climes, certain spells, incantations, 
and sorceries have been used to ward off 
diseases, and even today we find so-called 
civilized men who carry a buck eye or a potato 



48 BIOCHEMISTRY 

in their pockets, or wear iron rings to ward off 
rheumatism and other diseases. But through 
the fog of time and mysticism there towers one 
great man, Hipprocrates. He was imbued with 
the idea which he received from the Priests of 
Esculapias of Cos, that the value of medicine 
laid in the assistance of nature. He held 
strongly to this view, and taught physicians to 
study nature and observe her laws, which is the 
basis of all rational medicine today. 

With all their boasted knowledge and the 
setting up of false standards, the rank and file 
of the medical profession know very little more, 
from a therapeutic standpoint, than did Hippo- 
crates, and the majority of them have not 
advanced their peg a hole in the cribbage board 
since the days of the immortal Galean. 

Standards of medical colleges have been 
raised, and the time required to complete the 
medical course has been increased in most 
states to five years under the guise of protect- 
ing the dear people by turning out more compe- 
tent doctors, while perhaps the real reason is 
to limit the number of doctors by keeping 
numbers of people out of the profession. 

With all this, it seems to me that people that 
live in states where the medical standard is not 
so high keep just as well and live just as long 
as those who are so well protected by law, and 
the South Sea islanders who use the Voodoo 
man to scare disease out of their sick, get along 
just about as well as we do. 

The fact of the matter is that germs only 
affect sick people or those whose vitality is 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 49 

below the normal standard, and the people who 
live natural lives out in the open air have 
greater resisting power than civilized people 
who are overworked and underfed in the so- 
called social communities of the present day. 

The poor man is underfed and overworked 
and the rich man is overfed and underworked 
as a usual thing, consequently both suffer from 
auto-intoxication which is the cause of all 
disease. Nature regulates these things so that 
none are exempt from her immutable laws. 

The brain worker suffers as much as the 
laborer. A glance at the anatomical chart will 
show that approximately one-third of the entire 
circulation of the blood goes to keep up mental 
activity, and the waste products of cell com- 
bustion must be eliminated by the kidneys 
and liver, while the man who labors with his 
muscles forcibly eliminates more or less from 
the lungs and skin, taking considerable off the 
work from these organs. The name auto- 
intoxication covers a multitude of sins, such as 
purin w r aste, uric acid diathesis. During my 
twelve years of practice along intravenous 
lines, treating the blood almost exclusively for 
all diseases, I have learned many interesting 
things about the blood and its relation to physi- 
cal well being. I have given more than twenty 
thousand intravenous treatments, and there is 
hardly a classified disease I have not treated 
with better results than I could have obtained 
by any other method. During the routine treat- 
ment of hundreds of patients with as many dif- 



50 BIOCHEMISTRY 

ferent diseases, introducing the needle into the 
blood stream and withdrawing the piston of the 
syringe drawing out the blood to ascertain if I 
was in the vein, I have noticed that in the 
anaemas and diseases associated with low blood 
pressure the blood was aqueous and lacked 
viscosity, while those of high pressure and 
plethoric conditions, the blood was very viscid 
and seemed to break off in chunks. This con- 
dition was also found in acidaemia and condi- 
tions associated with rheumatic diathesis. This 
thick viscose blood will cause occlusion of the 
capillaries at the venous end, preventing the 
return flow of blood from the poorly vascu- 
larised extremities, similar to ligation of a part. 
If the normal interchange of blood between the 
tissue cells is kept up long enough, the cell 
languishes and dies in its own excreta, that is, 
gangrene results, while partial obstruction 
causes ischaemia, cyanosis, erythemia, etc. 

The inability of the fine capillaries of the 
neurons to carry this thick heavy blood is what 
causes neuritis, due to poor nutrition of the 
neurons. 

Raynaud's disease is caused by the occlusion 
of the capillaries of the extremities with this 
thick voscose blood, producing stasis, faulty 
nutrition, and finally gangrene. It is associated 
with uricacidaemia, and the treatment is the 
same as rheumatism. 

Mrs. L. suffered with articular rheumatism, 
also neuritis and Raynaud's disease, the finger 
tips being gangrenous. I gave her intra- 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 51 

venously 10 c.c. doses of the tissue salts in 
combination with the salicylates every third 
day, covering a period of ten weeks, with a 
complete recovery. I have treated sluggish 
ulcers of the lower extremities, also by this 
method, with good results when all other treat- 
ment failed. Mrs. J. suffered with four varicose 
ulcers on the right limb of long standing. 
Surgeon advocated amputation. Treated intra- 
venously twice per week for twelve weeks. No 
other treatment but elastic bandage to limb. 
Made a complete recovery. 

Articular rheumatism is usually brought 
about by traumatism, when the blood is satu- 
rated with urates, the urates are brought to this 
point in large quantities and the lessened alka- 
linity which takes place causes a precipitation 
of the urates, which become attached to the 
fibrous tissues. An intravenous injection of 
my alkaline solution for rheumatism every 
twelve to twenty-four hours will prevent this. 

Catarrh, another name for auto-intoxication, 
is due to faulty metabolism and deficient elim- 
ination is the source of many diseases, such as 
gall stones, appendicitis, tuberculosis, bron- 
chitis, and other diseases of this type. 

A gall stone is formed like a boy rolls a snow 
ball. Unless the snow is in the right condition 
he cannot roll it, and so it is with gall stones — 
the salts which are continuously passing 
through the gall bladder in combination with 
the sticky mucus form the nucleus of a stone 
which grows larger day by day, and regardless 



52 BIOCHEMISTRY 

of whatever produces this condition in the gall 
bladder, it must exist before a stone can form. 

Jaundice and catarrhal conditions of the liver 
in general respond rapidly to my synthetic 
solution of the tissue salts. 

Mr. K. had been troubled with dizziness, 
floating specks before his eyes, acid stomach, 
gas formation in the colon ; developed a case of 
yellow jaundice. Was treated by several phy- 
sicians with no results. After taking six intra- 
venous treatments was entirely restored to 
health. The range of usefulness of the tissue 
salts when given intravenously may be judged 
by the following case records, which I have on 
file : Mrs. F., asthmatic, 14 years' standing. 
Had to call in family physician on an average 
of twice a week. Take a hypo to relieve attacks. 
Gave her six treatments. Recovery complete. 
Gained thirty pounds. No recurrence in 8 
years. Mr. S., ulcers in stomach. Gave diet 
and rest cure in hospital for six weeks. Stomach 
washed out each day. No results. I gave him 
twelve blood treatments, one every third day. 
Complete recovery. Have another case on 
record of 12 years' standing. Cured with two 
treatments. Her husband was a stomach 
specialist. 

Dr. M. — Case diagnosed tuberculosis of sev- 
eral years' standing, had given up practice on 
account of sickness. I sent him six doses of 
my Haematone, and he wrote me that, after 
taking six treatments, he had resumed his 
practice and was on the road to complete 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 53 

recovery. Received a letter from him two years 
later and he was still well and very enthusiastic 
over the treatments. 

Mr. F. — Case history of tuberculosis of the 
lymphatic system. Had a gland removed 
from under the arm and the test showed 
tubercular germs. I treated him one year later 
and found the glands of the neck enlarged. He 
was advised to have another operation. I gave 
him four treatments, one every day for four 
days. Did not see him for six months and he 
was then entirely well. 

Mr. R. — Case neuritis of twenty years stand- 
ing. After taking six treatments he has not 
had a recurrence in the last two years. 

I might go on and enumerate case after case, 
to show you the wide range of disease treated 
by this method, with marvelous results. 

Protozyme is composed of the enzymes taken 
from the ductless glands of the lower animals 
and combined with proteins by my special 
method. 

The term Protozyme and method of use 
originated with me. 

It should be given in 3 to 6 c.c. doses hypo- 
dermically, at least once per week to activate 
the ductless glands and internal secretions in 
general. 

After making a special study of the ductless 
glands and their relation to health and disease, 
it is my belief that the extracts of these glands 
may be used advantageously in the treatment 
of disease. While the ductless glands, no 



54 BIOCHEMISTRY 

doubt, have very important functions to per- 
form in the organism it seems to me that they 
act as chemical laboratories where the blood 
undergoes changes and takes up certain rea- 
gents which have specific action on the other 
glands and organs of the body. It is certain 
that these glands cannot perform their func- 
tion when the blood supply is cut off and it is 
also reasonable to believe that normal blood is 
necessary to proper glandular activity. 

Pepsin is secreted bv the peptic glands of the 
stomach only when food is taken which causes 
a flow of blood to this organ, but if pepsin is 
prescribed for any length of time it will cause 
an atrophy of the peptic glands of the stomach 
and defeat the ends for which it was intended. 

This same thing is true of all the ductless 
glands, and while these extracts may have their 
place for temporary relief in acute cases it is 
best not to prescribe them for a long period of 
time. 

The alimentary canal is a wonderful piece of 
mechanism and is largely under th^ control of 
the nervous system. The brain and organs of 
sense take a large part in the digestive pro- 
cesses. 

The saliva begins to flow when you see, 
taste, or smell something you like to eat, and 
frequently when we are busily engaged we for- 
get to eat. The chemist of the kitchen under- 
stands this principle when he puts the apple 
in the roast pig's mouth, coloring in cakes and 
ices, and parsley on meat. 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 55 

We also have the surgical "bug" who claims 
all forms of indigestion are due to disease of 
the gall-bladder or appendix, and the Hydro- 
therapist who flushes out the colon for every- 
thing from the pyorrhoea to the piles, and the 
rectal specialist who begins at the bottom and 
works up for all diseases. Too bad the all-wise 
Creator did not make us with one straight gut 
like the pelican, thus saving us from a multi- 
tude of operations and nature fakers. 

I am inclined to place serums and vaccines 
in the same medical junk heap of exploded 
theories. Our ancestors will think us foolish 
for using them, as we do our forefathers for 
bleeding in all cases. 

In Japan every child is vaccinated when a 
few days old and the individual is revaccinated 
several times before the age of twenty, and yet 
statistics show that more people die from 
small-pox in Japan than in countries where 
vaccination is not compulsory. 

If anti-bodies can be produced in the blood 
with the tissue salts why use vaccines which 
are toxic? 

In streptococci infection sodium phosphate 
is a very potent remedy given intravenously in 
combination with calcium creosote. 

In pneumonia, calcium creosote and sodium 
salicylate are very proficient agents. 

The advent of salvarsan on the field of thera- 
peutics has ushered in a new era in the treat- 
ment of specific blood diseases. 



56 BIOCHEMISTRY 

It is my opinion that the old line treatment 
of these diseases with mercury and potash did 
more harm than the diseases would have done 
themselves, if allowed to run their course. 

Locomotor ataxia is claimed to be caused by 
syphilis, because statistics show that 75 per 
cent of these cases have had specific blood 
poison. 

I consider that it was the mercurial treat- 
ment of this disease that caused the locomotor 
ataxia instead of the disease. I have noticed 
that lead poisoning, copper and nickel poison- 
ing, also will cause this disease — the toxic 
effect of poisonous metals in general will cause 
nerve troubles of this nature. 

The lightning pains and cramps in the 
muscles in locomotor ataxia respond to the 
intravenous treatment with my solution of the 
tissue salts, which contains calcium. 

Calcium is now being used as an antidote to 
bichloride of mercury poisoning. One grain of 
calcium sulphide for every grain of mercury 
should be taken every hour for twelve hours to 
relieve the mercury poisoning. Magnesium 
phosphate is useful in mercury poisoning. 

I very seldom use any mercury in the treat- 
ment of these diseases. With such remedies at 
hand as salvarsan and sodium cacodylate, the 
use of mercury is inexcusable. 

The intravenous treatment of germ diseases 
with chemical agents which destroy life in the 
aggregate, without injuring the body cells is 
the coming and most rational method of treat- 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 57 

ing disease. We must get away from the idea 
of pumping the system full of dead germ soup 
to cure disease. My alterative solution of the 
tissue salts also contains a non-toxic form of 
arsenic, and if given in courses of six treat- 
ments every three months for a year, is very 
effective and harmless in treating diseases 
where an alterative is indicated. I prefer this 
treatment to neosalvarsan. 

In rheumatism, I use a solution of the tissue 
salts in combination with salicin. In the acute 
forms I give a dose every day until the symp- 
toms subside. In the chronic forms I give the 
treatments twice per week until a cure is 
obtained. 

From a standpoint of Biochemistry all 
disease is a form of starvation. All the organic 
constituents of the body are bountifully sup- 
plied by the foods. Scarcely ever is disease 
caused by a deficiency of the negative elements. 

The fats and carbohydrates are composed of 
oil, starches, sugar, dextrine, and grape sugar, 
chemical constituents C. O. H. They are all 
negatives and form (CO; 2 ). An excess of this 
gas impedes the process of oxidation and pre- 
vents the elimination of the metabolites, inter- 
feres with digestion, and causes cyanotic con- 
ditions. 

The nitrogenous food elements such as pro- 
teids, albumin, and gluten are composed of the 
elements C. O. H. N. P. S. They are all nega- 
tives, and in the process of digestion form car- 
bonic, uric, sulphuric, phosphoric, hippuric 



58 BIOCHEMISTRY 

acids, and the poisonous alkaloids, xanthin, 
creatine, and ptomaines, all of which cause 
disease when not properly eliminated. 

The 'positive elements of the body are the 
tissue salts K. Na. Ca. Mg. Fe. They are acid 
binding and eliminating. These positive alka- 
line mineral elements neutralize the destructive 
poisonous acids which are the metabolites or 
waste products formed in the digestion of the 
carbohydrates. If there is a lack of these alka- 
line tissue salts in the blood, the acids will 
take them from the bones and tissues, causing 
rachitic, scorbutic, and wasting diseases. 

Nervous energy, or animal electricity, is 
produced by the metallic elements, iron and 
magnesia, in the blood. Lime, magnesium, 
flourin, and silicon form the cell-skin, colloidal 
membranes, bony framework, and connective 
tissues. 

The organic salts of the blood are sodium 
chloride, sodium carbonate, and sodium phos- 
phate. 

Materia medica from a standpoint of Bio- 
chemistry solves itself into a study of the five 
cell-salts. 

The cell-salts enter the cell and unite with 
its protoplasm, and are essential to protoplas- 
mic activity. 

The following is a list of chemicals used : 
Iron phosphate (soluble). 
Magnesium, glycerinophosphate. 
Potassium phosphate dibasic, or glycerino- 
phosphate. 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 59 

Calcium, glycerophosphate, and sodium of 
phosphate. 

Silicon, Amorph, soluble. 

Alkalies, such as sodium silicate and 
potassium silicate. 
I use mostly the phosphates of the salts. I 
never use the chlorides or sulphates of the 
salts, with the exception of sodium, as they are 
formed in the system in the process of meta- 
bolism and all nature needs is the base to work 
with as hydrochloric and sulphuric acids are 
found in the system and combine with the salts 
to form the chlorides and sulphates. 

While biochemists in most cases use the tissue 
salts single, I get the best results by using in 
combination two or more, and frequently five, 
of the stock solutions which are given intra- 
venously. Some physicians will prefer the 
twelve tissue salts as outlined by Dr. Scheuss- 
ler. However, the sulphates and chlorides will 
be formed in the process of metabolism and so 
far as minute dosage or triturates are con- 
cerned, these remedies are classed as foods, 
and the system will take up what is required 
to supply any deficiencies, and eliminate the 
rest, as is the case with all other foods so long 
as they are not given in doses large enough 
to form concentrations which will interfere 
with osmosis, according to the laws laid down 
for colloidal membranes in my chapter on cel- 
lular physiology. 

Ferrum phosphate is the remedy for inflam- 
mation. It will reduce the fever and cure a 



60 BIOCHEMISTRY 

cold better and quicker than aconite or coal tar 
products. 

Give it in pneumonia, pleurisy, headache, 
sore throat, rheumatism, hemorrhages, swell- 
ing boils, bed wetting. Combine it with mag- 
nesium phosphate where the pain is severe, as 
in colic, neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, asthma. 
It is a tissue restorer indicated in tuberculosis, 
kidney trouble, diseases of old age, leucorrhoea. 
chlorosis, painful menstruation, scrofula, anae- 
mia, dyspepsia. 

Liquor calcis is a great remedy and may be 
used internally and externally with good 
results. As a wash for ulcers and open sores 
of every description it will prove very effective. 
I use it as an injection in urethritis almost 
exclusively, with the exception of when I use 
a little castile soap and water, the curative 
result of which is due to the potassa it con- 
tains. 

Liquor calcis is also a very good wash in 
chancroids and in syphilitic and varicose 
ulcers. In these conditions it supplies to the 
part the cell salt necessary for the building up 
of the cell walls and new tissues. 

. A good eye wash may be made by taking one 
part of liquor calcis and a saturated solution 
of Berberine muriate, four parts, filter to clear 
up the solution. 

Iron and calcium makes a good combination 
in chlorosis, anaema, tuberculosis, and catarrhal 
conditions of the alimentary tract. In summer 
complaints of children they cure where all 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 61 

others fail. These two remedies have a wide 
range of usefulness ; they are astringent, tonic, 
alterative, antacid, refrigerant, antiseptic and 
nontoxic. Why use other drugs to get the 
above effects? 

MAGNESIUM is indicated in all painful 
conditions, such as neuralgia, angina pectoris, 
gall stones, painful menstruation, and after- 
pains of pregnancy. You will find that it will 
work better than opiates in these conditions. 
Intravenously with a normal saline solution it 
has proven effective in streptococci infection, 

Potassium is the brain salt and works good 
in combination with magnesium. Potassium is 
indicated in brain fag, insomnia, epilepsy, 
chorea, neurasthaenia, etc. 

Potassium is a worker in fibrin and is useful 
in all fibrinous exudations, leucorrhoea, asthma, 
bronchitis, dysentery, and catarrh. 

Sodium and its various salts are among the 
most valuable in the materia medica. 

This salt maintains the water balance of the 
system. In biliousness, flatulent colic, dia- 
betes, influenza, torpid liver, and toxic condi- 
tions of this type, sodium sulphate is the indi- 
cated remedy. 

Sodium chloride is a sovereign remedy in all 
watery exudations from the mucous mem- 
branes ; pain and vomiting of clear mucus, eyes 
water, coryza or catarrh, intermittent fever, 
thirst and headache with constipation. It 
makes a good eye wash, and a pinch in a glass 
of hot water on arising in the morning has 
cured catarrh of the stomach, and hemorrhages 



62 BIOCHEMISTRY 

of all kinds. However, the regular calcreose 
solution is the best in these conditions. 

Creosote is destructive to the bacilli tubercu- 
losis and the pneumococcus, as well as all 
other pus forming bacilli. 

Calcium is also a very essential element in 
tuberculosis and pneumonia, and if not 
furnished, the bacilli will rob the cells of their 
calcium in their reproduction, as nature builds 
a wall of calcium around the tubercles in 
consumption. The fibrinous exudation of pneu- 
monia is due to a loss of calcium. 

In pneumonia I give a solution of calcium 
creosote, teaspoonful dose every hour intern- 
ally and every day five c.c. injections of my 
intravenous formula. I use practically the 
same treatment in tuberculosis, only not so 
frequent. 

In third stage tubercular cases I have cured 
mixed infection by this treatment in three 
weeks' time and in many instances have 
effected a complete cure, while in the first and 
second stages this treatment proves very 
effective. I have used calcium glycerophos- 
phate, which is soluble in water or milk, with 
good results. 

Calcium regulates and stimulates the heart 
action, promotes cell division, builds up the cell 
skin of the cells and increases all glandular 
activity, thus promoting the normal secretion 
of all body fluids concerned in metabolism 
such as pepsin, trypsin, adrenalin, and the 
various antibodies and harmonies, which are so 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 63 

necessary in all the vital processes. Its intra- 
venous use is very good in hemorrhages. 

Blood plasma has a tendency to transude 
through the epithelial wall between the blood 
vessels and air spaces into the lungs where it 
coagulates in the presence of oxygen, thus 
causing solidification. 

This is the pathology of pneumonia from a 
standpoint of biochemistry. The pneumococci 
must have calcium for their reproduction. This 
is proven in the way they propagate on calcium 
carbonate broth in the laboratory. They attack 
the cells and rob them of their calcium, thus 
causing a breaking down of the cell wall. The 
salts of potassium and magnesium are also 
taken up to some extent. This weakens the 
cell walls formed by the epithelium, destroying 
or lowering its osmotic pressure as a colloidal 
membrane to the fibrin of the blood; at the 
same time the fibrin of the blood is acted upon 
so as to admit of its passage through these 
membranes with greater ease. It is thus 
allowed to pass into the air spaces, where it 
coagulates. 

There is an excess of hydrochloric acid in the 
stomach for the simple reason that the calcium 
and alkaline salts that ordinarily hold it in 
solution or neutralize it have been used up in 
the pathogenic process. Calcium is necessary 
to stimulate leukocytosis. Gray hepatization, 
fatty degeneration of the fibrin and leukocytes, 
are impossible without calcium. Collapse of 
the heart, oedema of the lungs, and convulsions 
are due to a loss of calcium. 



64 BIOCHEMISTRY 

Calcium salts increase the viscidity of the 
blood and reduce the coagulation time. 

This lack of viscidity of the blood as well as 
the increased permeability of the cell walls 
which form the epithelial colloidal membranes 
of the kidneys are the cause of albuminuria. 
I have explained in another chapter how 
improper oxidation and the consequent 
diminished elimination of the acids cause the 
cells of the tissues to be robbed of calcium and 
other alkaline salts. Nature's method of get- 
ting rid of these acids is by neutralizing them. 
Of course, if the overproduction of acids is kept 
up for a long time by overeating and under- 
breathing, disease will follow. 

I have cured the worst cases of albuminuria 
by the administration of the tissue salts. Ten 
grains of calcium phosphate, three times daily, 
in a glass of milk, is a sovereign treatment for 
this trouble. Many of the mineral springs of 
the country owe their curative properties to the 
tissue salts which they contain. There is one 
at Stafford, Mississippi, whose waters contain 
every one of the tissue salts, which is noted 
for its wonderful cures. 

Functional albuminuria of children, often 
caused by rapid growth, of course exhausts the 
calcium salts of the cells. Calcium phosphate, 
ten grains, three times a day, will work 
wonders. 

Diabetes mellitus will respond to sodium 
sulphate because it regulates the water supply 
to the blood and is a carrier of oxygen, that is, 



MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS 65 

it liberates the oxygen in the liver, thus decom- 
posing the sugar and prevents it reaching the 
kidneys as such. It reduces the viscidity of 
the bile. It works well in combination with 
ferrum phosphate and potassium phosphate, as 
there is a deficiency of these salts which causes 
the nervous symptoms. If there is a great 
emaciation calcium phosphate is indicated. 

As to diet, the patient should eat a little at 
a time and eat often. Overloading the system 
with greasy food is contra-indicated in all 
pathological conditions. 

Bright's disease, a chronic form of albumi- 
nuria, is due to a deficiency of calcium phos- 
phate, as this salt reduces or increases the 
viscidity of the blood as the case may be. 
Lime and albumin are always indicated by 
frothy bubbles rising in the urine. Of course 
a deficiency of lime is always followed by iron 
and potassium, with nervous symptoms, which 
always follow a deficiency of these salts. The 
passing of albumin is due to the lack of visci- 
dity of the blood, which reduces its osmotic 
pressure and calcium is the salt that controls 
this condition. 

Calcium creosote in combination with iron 
is good in these cases. 



Oxidation 



Oxygen is the chief element in nature. Over 
one-fifth of the substance of the globe is com- 
posed of this element, and all the mechanical 
activities of the world depend upon it. 

Every vital manifestation of animal life 
depends upon oxidation. In our study of this 
element with its relation to physiological chem- 
istry we will find that the secretion of every 
gland of the body is carried on by a process of 
oxidation ; furthermore, that digestion, assim- 
ilation and elimination, depend entirely upon 
oxidation. 

The carbohydrates are important as food 
simply because they contain carbon, oxygen 
and hydrogen in a simple form easily decom- 
posed, oxidized, or transmuted by gradations 
either up or down the scale, to form dextrose, 
glucose, lactose, levulose, etc. In fact they are 
stored-up solar energy. The vegetable king- 
dom is continually transmuting inorganic sub- 
stances from the soil by a process of oxidation 
and carbonization into organic matter, princi- 
pally in the form of carbohydrates. 

The plant in the sunlight and air takes up 
matter from the soil in its sap and in the form 
of sugars, and when the seed is being formed 
this sugar is transformed into starch. One of 
the distinguishing features of plant life is the 



68 BIOCHEMISTRY 

power of changing the starch deposited in the 
seed back into sugar and again resuming the 
living state. 

Going back to oxidation with which we are 
at the present chiefly interested, we shall see 
that by this process dextrin and all other fer- 
ments, which play an important role in the 
transmutation of vegetable into animal matter, 
are formed. 

First, let us take up the subject of respira- 
tion in animals. Respiration might well be 
termed oxidation, for its chief office is the tak- 
ing up of oxygen from the air and expelling 
carbonic acid gas from the lungs which is a 
product of oxidation in the animal tissue. I 
mentioned before that digestion, assimilation, 
and elimination depend upon oxidation. Uric 
acid, the by-products of digestion, and the tox- 
ins of infectious disease, must be split up by 
oxidation before they can be eliminated or they 
set up an irritation in the organism which 
chiefly affects the connective tissues as they 
are the most susceptible to irritation and have 
a tendency to proliferation and to hyperplasia 
when thus affected. Herein we have the gene- 
sis of cirrhosis of the liver, interstitial nephri- 
tis, locomotor ataxia, arterial sclerosis which 
spells old age, for when the arteries become 
sclerosed they lose their elasticity, consequent- 
ly the circulation is impeded, the smaller ar- 
terioles are occluded, the tissue cells starve for 
food and oxygen and break down ; elimination 
and assimilation must necessarily become af- 
fected and this is the condition which we term 



OXIDATION 69 

old age and by which the animal dies a natural 
death of deoxidation, 

Old Professor Metchnikoff need seek no fur- 
ther for the cause of old age, for if he can pre- 
vent arterial sclerosis which interferes with 
proper oxidation he has the Fountain of Eter- 
nal Youth. No w r onder he thought he had the 
secret in the life of the sturdy mountaineers of 
Switzerland who live on sour milk and cheese, 
yet their longevity is due to the rarified moun- 
tain air which promotes oxidation rather than 
the lactic acid of sour milk. 

DIGESTION 

Let us discuss for a time the subject of di- 
gestion and its relation to oxidation. 

For an illustration we will take the hibernat- 
ing animals. During the hibernating state they 
breathe very slowly in some instances, not to 
exceed three or four respirations per minute, 
circulation is very sluggish and as a conse- 
quence digestion stops and life is kept up by 
absorption of the fats which the animal depos- 
ited in the tissues during the active state, elim- 
ination also stops with oxidation. 

When the animal has consumed forty per 
cent of its body weight life will become extinct. 
This is a good gauge for your tubercular 
patients, as that is the process that takes place 
in this disease. Can there be any better proof 
than the hibernating animals that digestion, 
elimination and assimilation, in fact all mani- 
festations of vital activity, depend entirely 
upon a proper oxidation? 



70 BIOCHEMISTRY 

From this we must assume that the cause 
of so much dyspepsia and indigestion, im- 
proper elimination and poor nutrition in our 
patients, is due to improper breathing, poor air 
or insufficient oxidation from some cause. 
Many people live and breathe like hibernating 
animals. They sit humped up over an office 
desk all day, breathing like these animals, and 
wonder why they suffer from sour stomachs 
and indigestion. Seventy-five per cent of all 
these thoubles are due to improper breathing, 
this of course in time causing a breakdown of 
the cell walls with a precipitation of the cell 
salts and as a consequence disease. The other 
twenty-five per cent, of course, are the sequelae 
of the first cause, deficient oxidation, and the 
only rational treatment is to supply the cell 
salts to the blood directly by intravenous injec- 
tion which will supply the exhausted proto- 
plasm with the elements which give it life and 
activity. 

If the red blood cells through a degeneration 
of the cell-skin or plasmahaut have precipi- 
tated one-half their haemoglobin or blood-iron 
into the serum, after which it is elimin- 
ated, it stands to reason that this element must 
be supplied along with the other cell salts, 
which help to hold it in solution, to build up 
the cell walls and also to increase cell division 
with the multiplication of new cells to supply 
the deficiency. This may be done by an intra- 
venous injection of a harmonious solution of 
the tissue salts. 



OXIDATION 71 

The same effect may be accomplished by 
having the patient exercise and breathe twice 
as fast until normal conditions are established 
by assimilation from the food; that is, provid- 
ing the food contains all the cell salts. Another 
interesting fact is that glandular activity is 
aroused, the patient acquires an appetite and 
can digest the food taken after the intravenous 
treatment with the tissue salts. However, we 
shall discuss this mode of treatment under 
therapeutics. 

Let us study a while the relation of oxygen 
to secretion by the kidneys. If in the frog you 
ligate the whole of the renal arteries, urinary 
secretion ceases and urinary flow cannot be 
induced even by an intravenous injection of 
urea. 

We furthermore get a rapid destruction of 
the tubular epithelium. Going further, if we 
supply the frog with pure oxygen the portal 
circulation will send enough oxygen through 
the renal portal vein to oxidize the tubules 
The epithelium is thus kept intact and we will 
get a small flow of urine. 

This experiment proves that the tubules have 
a secretory function and that function depends 
upon proper oxidation. 

Next let us study the effect of oxidation on 
the nervous and circulatory systems. The vas- 
cular system is subordinate in its activity to 
the needs of the brain. The brain will insist 
upon a proper supply of blood and oxygen. To 
bring this about a certain height of arterial 



72 BIOCHEMISTRY 

pressure is necessary. If the brain does not 
receive a proper supply of oxydized blood the 
animal soon dies. As soon as the blood pres- 
sure falls low enough to produce an ischaemia 
affecting the vasomotor center, the latter sends 
down impulses by the way of the vascular 
nerves causing vaso-constriction. If this does 
not raise arterial pressure sufficiently, in- 
creased respirations and expiratory convulsions 
occur, tending to force the blood from the veins 
into the heart to compensate the circulation to 
the brain. This is what takes place in asphyxia, 
or if the animal be exposed to an atmosphere 
deficient in oxygen. This is what increases the 
cardiac and respiratory action in mountain 
climbing from rarified atmosphere. Thus we 
get an increased action of the blood-making 
organs and a consequent increase in the red 
corpuscles, which is beneficial to the patient, 
yet, if the same result can be brought about 
artificially without the taxing of the vital 
powers so much the better. 

The above condition of the circulatory ap- 
paratus is brought about by anaemia and is the 
cause of chills and fever, colds, etc., which I 
shall try to make clear. 

When there is a lack of iron in the blood, 
oxidation is affected, the brain causes a reflex 
constriction of the arterioles in order to keep 
up its supply of oxygen. This lack of circula- 
tion in the periphery causes the pores of the 
skin to clog up with waste matter which 
should escape by this route. There is as a 



OXIDATION 73 

result an exudation from the mucous and 
serous membranes of the body causing catarrhs 
and colds, pneumonia, pleurisy, etc. 

FEVER 

There is not a medical writing extant that 
gives a good definition for fever. When there 
is a deficient supply of oxygen taken up by the 
blood, from a lack of iron and potassium in 
this fluid, in order to do its work properly the 
circulation must be increased. This increased 
motion is changed to heat. This molecular 
disturbance soon breaks up the continuity of 
other cells. We get a rapid decrease of the 
iron in the blood followed by a decrease of 
potassium chloride if iron is not soon supplied, 
also an acid reaction. A deficiency of this salt 
in the blood will cause a defibrination of same. 
The toxins of the bacillus pneumococcus affect 
the plasmahaut, precipitate the cell salts, espe- 
cially calcium and sodium phosphate and potas- 
sium chloride, which is followed by the blood 
iron. This brings about a defibrination of the 
blood which is the pathological change in 
pneumonia. It is possible that the heat of the 
blood with lack of oxygen liquifies the fibrin 
and allows it to pass into the air spaces of the 
lungs. 

Heart failure may be due to insufficient oxi- 
dation of the blood. The brain demands a full 
supply of oxydized blood and will exact the 
same to the last drop at the expense of every 
other organ of the body. A lack of oxygen in 
the blood will have the same action on the 



74 BIOCHEMISTRY 

brain as a loss of blood to the circulation. The 
heart will have to pump much harder, thus 
increasing the velocity of the blood to the fam- 
ished brain centers to furnish the required nu- 
trition which could be supplied by half the 
amount of blood up to the physiological stand- 
ard in cell salts. 

The function of the heart is to maintain the 
constant passage of blood between the arterial 
and venous sides of the vascular system. Tak- 
ing it from the venous side at a low pressure it 
pumps it into the arterial system at a high 
pressure. 

Anaemia stimulates the vaso-motor centers 
to call for nutrition and oxidation which pro- 
duces a universal constriction of the venous 
circulation, palpitation of the heart with in- 
creased action to supply the demand which 
doubles the work of the heart. This increased 
action of the heart, if kept up for any length 
of time, causes hypertrophy which in time will 
be followed by dilatation, with a loss of com- 
pensation and death. 

Thus we see that for every ischaemia there 
is a corresponding hyperemia. If the peri- 
pheral vessels are contracted, those supplying 
the deeper parts must be dilated if the sum 
total of the circulating fluid remains the same. 
There must be an accommodation somewhere, 
and as a consequence the liver and other gland- 
ular organs become congested, there is a hy- 
peraemia of the mucous membranes with 
mucous discharge, and a discharge of the water 



OXIDATION 75 

of the blood into the perivascular spaces, caus- 
ing a condensation of the blood, thus restoring 
the equilibrium for the time being. 

A blood count or haemoglobin test at this 
time would appear normal on the account of 
the blood condensation while the circulating 
fluid has been decreased. This condition must 
soon be remedied as it will be followed by 
thirst with an intake of fluids and a consequent 
dilution of the blood causing hydraemic ple- 
thora, the brain centers will become exhausted 
by the long strain in maintaining the blood 
pressure and relax. The circulation becomes 
sluggish, carbon dioxide will accumulate in the 
blood with all the other debris that has been 
accumulating during the spasmodic constric- 
tion of the arterioles. 

Nature comes to the rescue and will heal the 
person if given a chance. It is a well estab- 
lished fact that whenever there is a lowered 
blood pressure with a lack of oxygen tension 
and increased carbon dioxide in the blood, 
these three factors set up an irritation of the 
blood-making organs with a production of red 
corpuscles. Right at this period in the disease 
is where the wise physician can come to na- 
ture's aid as the food may not furnish the tis- 
sue salts especially haemoglobin, to fertilize 
the young blood cells and they shrivel up and 
die. An intravenous injection of the tissue 
salts at this time will work wonders and good 
results may be had by giving the tissue salts 
internally. 



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APOPLEXY vs. PLETHORA.— The bene- 
ficial results from high altitudes is due to the 
lowered oxygen tension of the air which in- 
creases the red blood corpuscles. If we poison 
an animal with CO- 2 gas we will find an 
increase in the red corpuscles and the lowered 
blood pressure. If we get both these conditions 
at the same time nature cannot supply the iron 
to build up the haemoglobin of the new born 
cells which would increase the intake of oxygen 
with the expulsion of the C0. 2 gas. Conse- 
quently, if the iron is supplied to build up the 
haemoglobin of the new born cells, it would 
increase the intake of oxygen with the expul- 
sion of the C0. 2 gas. Consequently if the iron 
is not supplied a condition of plethora, a thick 
heavy blood in excessive quantities, is pro- 
duced in the vascular system, which cannot, on 
account of the lack of oxygen bearing proclivi- 
ties, nourish the vasomotor center in the brain. 
The brain telegraphs the heart to pump faster, 
all the other tissues and cells are starving for 
oxygen and breaking down, soon some of the 
weak blood vessels of the brain as a result of 
the high blood pressure and the pounding 
away of the heart trying to compensate give 
away and the patient dies of apoplexy. 

Nature kills the patient in an effort to cure 
him. From what is just said regarding blood 
pressure you may account for the beneficial 
effect of blood letting of our forefathers. This 
blood letting called into play the recuperative 
processes just mentioned, increasing the red 
cells and, with good food and pure air, the 



OXIDATION 77 

normal standard of the blood was maintained. 
As a result the same benefit was derived as we 
get now from a trip to the mountains. 

CYANOSIS 

The cell salt sodium phosphate holds the 
CO.o in a weak union and, while a great many- 
cases of carbon dioxide poisoning are due to 
lack of this salt in the blood, the majority of 
cases are due either to living in an atmosphere 
with a lack of oxygen in the air, as in ill venti- 
lated rooms with furnaces and stoves which 
discharge C0. 2 into the air of the room as well 
as consume the oxygen, or, to a lack of iron in 
the red blood cells which is absolutely neces- 
sary to take oxygen from the air and at the 
same time set free the C0. 2 gas from its loose 
union with sodium phosphate. 

There should be about forty-five centimeters 
of carbon dioxide in every hundred cubic centi- 
meters of venous blood. This gas is three 
times more soluble in the blood than is oxygen. 
It has a function to perform. When this gas 
accumulates in the blood it sets up an irrita- 
tion in the nerves of the blood vessels which is 
telegraphed to the respiratory center in the 
medulla. The result is inspiration taking in 
oxygen followed by expiration throwing out 
the C0. 2 gas set free by the intake of oxygen. 
Thus C0. 2 gas keeps us alive while we sleep, 
by the irritation set up in the respiratory cen- 
ter in the medulla from the nerves of the blood 
vessels. Summing up you can see how anaemic 
conditions due to a lack of blood-iron or 



78 BIOCHEMISTRY 

breathing an atmosphere deficient in oxygen 
will disturb the whole circulatory and respira- 
tory systems. Rapid breathing is due to the 
accumulation of carbon dioxide which in turn 
is caused by insufficient oxidation. 

OBESITY 

The person who is excessively fat has a lack 
of ferrum phosphate in the blood which of 
course means that the person is underoxidized, 
allowing the fats to be stored in the tissues 
that were intended to maintain the heat of the 
organism. 

Nature comes to the rescue by storing the 
fats in the areolar tissues of the body and by 
a system of conservation of heat similar to a 
thermos bottle. The normal temperature of the 
body is maintained. Clinical records show that 
we have a very grave form of anaemia in 
obesity. 

Circular No. 31 of the U. S. Bureau of Chem- 
istry proves by a physiological test of twelve 
young men in the department that the salicyl- 
ates increase the red blood cells for a time, this 
proves conclusively that the benefit derived 
from the salicylates in rheumatism is brought 
about by increased oxidation due to the in- 
crease in the red blood corpuscles. However, 
the good effects derived from oxidation are 
counterbalanced by the bad effects on the di- 
gestive and circulatory organs. I might elab- 
orate on this subject enough to fill volumes. 
All the mechanical and physiological activities 
of the world are due to this chemical change. 



OXIDATION 79 

The curative results obtained by those who 
practise physiological therapeutics are due to 
proper control of the circulation. The condi- 
tion of the system known as the uric acid dia- 
thesis has its genesis in improper breathing or 
other causes which interfere with proper oxida- 
tion of the blood and tissues. As a consequence 
the acids formed by the metabolistic process 
going on in the system are not split up by oxi- 
dation and eliminated. Nature again comes to 
the rescue and tries to neutralize the acids in 
the system by throwing out the alkaline salts 
of the tissues and bones, thus in trying to cure 
the patient creates new diseases such as scor- 
butis, rachitis, decayed teeth, and a breaking 
down of the colloidal membranes of the body 
from the absorption of the lime salts of the 
cell walls, and thus would be ushered in the 
chronic stage of the disease. At this stage, if 
the tissue salts are not supplied to rebuild the 
cell walls the cell salts will be precipitated, 
and the blood iron eliminated, making it impos- 
sible for nature to restore the equilibrium. As 
a result of the breaking down of the colloidal 
membranes we get albuminuria, dropsy, 
catarrh, jaundice, and nervous prostration. 

Again nature kills the patient while making 
a supreme effort to cure him. 

Nascent sulphuric acid is formed during the 
oxidation of albumin. It unites in the nascent 
state with the alkalies of potassa and soda lib- 
erating their carbonic acid, otherwise it would 
destroy the tissues. For this reason it is not 



■ BIOCHEMISTRY 

nee give the sulphates of these salts, 

as they are formed by a natural process. 

Tuberculosa all the acute and in- 

fectious diseases of childhood are due to low- 
ered resistance caused by insufficient oxidation. 
So long as innocent children continue to be 
asphyxiated in overcrowded and ill-ventilated 
school rooms, using their little brains five 
hours per day which is more devitalizing than 
twenty hours manual labor, while at the same 
time they are required to remain perfectly 
quiet in the rther impeding the 

circulation of the blood, just so long will : 
be carried away by the ravages of the acute 
infectious d:~ : childhood- 

People living in valleys where the o> 
tension is high get into the habit of using only 
part of the lung surface, thus allowing part of 
the cells to become closed up from non-use, 
causing a breaking down of the md 

predisposing to infection. 

In closing this chapter I would suggest that 
you impress upon your patien:s the value of 
deep breathing and pure air. In fact, perfect 
oxidation is just as ne :o digestion as 

eating. There can be no assimilation without 
proper oxidation. Water, air. and light form 
the triad of life. If the earth were depr 
of any one of these, all animal life would soon 
cease to exist. The all-wise Creator has given 
a bountiful supply of these. If properly 
used they will prevent 90 per cent of the 
infectious diseases and cure nearlv all curable 



OXIDATION 81 

diseases. Lowered blood pressure especially 
on the venous side interferes with oxidation. 
This may be due to a lack of calcium in the 
bjood cells, as this salt seems to increase 
the action of the heart as well prevent fibri- 
nation of the blood, thus allowing it to pass 
through the colloidal membranes with greater 
ease, as the protein content of the blood stream 
regulates its osmotic pressure, which in turn 
affects the blood pressure in general. Valvular 
disease of the heart as well as disease of the 
kidneys and liver which obstruct the circula- 
tion will also affect blood pressure, which in 
turn will interfere with proper oxidation. 
There is nothing better than systematic mas- 
sage or osteopathy to restore the vital equili- 
brium to that extent where nature can continue 
the process, as the patient with a lowered blood 
pressure is in such a devitalized condition from 
the accumulation of toxins and waste products 
of metabolism which have been caused by 
lowered pressure, that it is impossible for 
nature to overcome the obstruction unless aided 
by some mechanical means. Drugging will be 
of little avail as it will furnish only an artificial 
stimulus to organs which on account of low- 
ered resistance will not respond and you have 
only added more poison to that which has 
already accumulated in the system and has to 
be eliminated. 

In deep breathing the vacuum formed by the 
suction of the diaphragm pumps the blood from 
the veins and along with massage forces the 
blood past the valves in the veins, thus forcing 



82 BIOCHEMISTRY 

it on towards the heart as it is clone by the 
contraction of the muscles in health. This will 
establish a normal blood pressure and circula- 
tion, followed by proper oxidation, assimila- 
tion, elimination, and health. 

During the carboniferous period vegetation 
grew rank and luxuriant, and monsters 
roamed the earth living to be hundreds of years 
old. This was due to the fact that there was 
less oxygen and more carbon in the atmos- 
phere than there is at the present time. 

If by some atmospheric change the oxygen 
balance in the air should be increased one per 
cent, we would rush through life like the 
ephemoral butterfly and die of old age at 
twenty. Thus we see how the supreme intelli- 
gence that created the universe has amply pro- 
vided for our physical well-being. 



Intravenous Medication 

The subject of intravenous medication is 
occupying the attention of the majority of 
progressives in the medical profession at the 
present time. 

I have been experimenting with this line of 
medication for twelve years and have treated 
several hundred cases by this method with 
very potent results and without the slightest 
complication in a single case. 

It was held by eminent men in the profession 
that active chemical agents could not be intro- 
duced into the blood stream and that a small 
bubble of air would cause a clot resulting in 
air emboli. 

On several occasions I have allowed a small 
bubble of air to enter the vein with no ill 
effects. I scarcely think that any danger could 
come from an air bubble unless it were large 
enough to obstruct one of the auricles or ven- 
tricles of the heart. 

As the effects of all medication, when taken 
internally, are brought about through the circu- 
lation, it stands to reason that the most direct 
method is to introduce the agent into the 
blood, thus avoiding the contamination of same 
in the alimentary canal by the secretions and 
foods. 



84 BIOCHEMISTRY 

The action of a drug given by this method 
is much quicker and obtained with smaller 
quantities of the drug, and at the same time it 
is eliminated quickly from the organism. 

I have used a number of solutions of various 
drugs intravenously, in cases treated, but the 
greater part of my work has been confined to 
the tissue salts, calcium, potassium, mag- 
nesium, sodium, and iron. In connection with 
these, I have used sodium salicylate, bichloride 
of mercury, sodium cacodylate, lithium ben- 
zoate, eurotropin, arsenic, calcium salicylate, 
and possibly others which I do not now recall. 

It has been my experience that any aqueous 
solution of the above drugs in doses of the size 
in which they are given internally may be 
given intravenously with practically no danger 
and with more potent results. 

These remedies are of known value in cases 
where they are indicated when given inter- 
nally ; naturally their curative results are due 
to the effect on the blood or through the blood, 
and this being the case, it stands to reason 
greater results may be obtained when they pass 
directly into the blood stream. 

In the great majority of cases, I use a har- 
monious solution of the tissue salts with a 
little guiacol or creosote along with arsenic 
and salicin. My reason for using the tissue 
salts are outlined pretty thoroughly in my 
chapter on the materia medica of these salts. 
They are the positive elements of the body and 
are used as natural reagents in physiological 



INTRAVENOUS MEDICATION 85 

chemistry to make up the molecular chain 
which carries on the chemistry of life. 

Salicin is a natural constituent of apples, 
strawberries, tomatoes, and various foods, and 
has proven of value in rheumatic conditions ; 
it also increases the red blood cells, is altera- 
tive, and inhibits the proliferation of con- 
nective tissue cells. The arsenic is used as a 
reconstructive, alterative, and haemotonic in 
syphilis and in various skin diseases and dis- 
crasias due to inherited blood taints. 

Calcium and creosotes are indicated in tuber- 
cular cases in combination with the other tissue 
salts. 

Calcium creosote is a very good preparation 
to use as the basis for making your solutions. 
It is composed of calcium and pure beechwood 
creosote in chemical combination. I have been 
using this preparation in making my intra- 
venous solutions for some time and find it up 
to the standard, and at the same time it simpli- 
fies the process of preparing the solution. 

In syphilitic cases I give the injection twice 
per week and I add to each injection just 
before using sodium cacodylate, ten grains, 
alternating at the next injection by adding 
1/40 grain of the bichloride of mercury instead 
of the sodium cacodylate. 

Sodium cacodylate is a good adjunct to the 
treatment in the various forms of skin diseases 
where arsenic is indicated. 

For the past twelve years I have been prac- 
tising intravenous medication almost exclu- 



86 BIOCHEMISTRY 

sively, and I am, so far as I know, the origi- 
nator of the method of inserting the needle in 
the vein without cutting down on same. 

I have given not less than fifteen thousand 
intravenous injections and find it the most 
potent way to treat disease. I recently held a 
clinic where I gave fifty intravenous treat- 
ments per day for five days to all ages and 
sizes, and did not in a single instance miss the 
vein. In intravenous medication, as in all other 
things, practice makes perfect. You may read 
about the technique, but you will have to have 
the real practice in order to become proficient. 
I would as soon give an intravenous treatment 
myself, as to give one hypodermically. 

I use an all glass 10 c.c. syringe, and a 27 
gauge three-quarter inch slipon needle. I keep 
a small piece of razor hone at hand to sharpen 
my needles. 

Ordinarily, I use a needle about one dozen 
times except on infectious cases, where I 
destroy the needle after using. 

Immediately after using the needle, I force 
hot water through the needle and syringe to 
remove any blood that forces its way back into 
the syringe when the needle is introduced, next 
I sterilize with a solution of 33$ per cent phenol 
and water, leaving the syringe standing in the 
antiseptic solution until ready to use on the 
next patient. I take a pleget of cotton and steril- 
ize the arm with the same solution before in- 
serting the needle. Iodine may be used, but I 
find that phenol answers the purpose very well. 



INTRAVENOUS MEDICATION 87 

I have never had an infection in all of the cases 
I have treated. After removing the needle, I 
apply flexible collodion to the part. 

I use one-inch muslin bandages for a con- 
strictor, wrap it around the arm twice, and tie 
in a bow knot, on the upper side of the arm 
just above the elbow to raise the vein. This is 
easily removed after the needle is inserted. 

To give the injection, seat your patients in a 
chair in a manner represented in the cut on 
another page of this book. Lean them back 
gently and tell them to look away from the 
operation. This will avoid nervousness and 
fainting from the psychic effect. 

Place your constrictor as above, insert the 
needle, withdraw piston to ascertain if in the 
vein. Next remove the constrictor and empty 
the syringe very slowly, taking at least one 
minute to give injection, otherwise the solution 
will irritate the vein. 

It has been my experience that there is less 
toxic effect from giving a drug intravenously 
than intramuscular. I use Neo-salvarsan dis- 
solved in 10 c.c. distilled water intravenously 
with very little toxic effects. 

A drug given intravenously is in a more 
direct route to the eliminating organs, and is 
eliminated more rapidly than where taken per 
mouth or intramuscularly. 

As large a dose of bichloride of mercury may 
be given intravenously as by mouth, and there 
is very little danger of salivation. When given 
by this method in conjunction with cacodylate 



88 BIOCHEMISTRY 

of soda or when added to the general formula 
given on another page, it destroys the spiro- 
cheta palada in the blood, and is rapidly elim- 
inated by the kidneys. 

In dropsical conditions, sodium sulphate, ten 
grains to the ounce and sodium chloride, two 
grains to the ounce of water, will produce a 
diuretic effect by its irritation on the tubules 
of the kidneys and at the same time it extracts 
the fluids from the inter-cellular spaces into 
the blood vessels, thus eliminating the same. 

I have given the basis of the formulas that 
may be used with good results in the various 
diseases you are called upon to treat. I will 
leave it to the physician to give the treat- 
ments as often as indicated in the conditions 
as you find them. 

In pneumonia we get a very dense or vis- 
cose blood and one of the chief objects to be 
attained in the treatment of this disease is to 
keep the blood at the normal density. While 
the treatment outlined with the tissue salts 
acts very good in these cases, it is good 
practice to give sodium citrate in 30 grain 
doses every two hours to adults, children in 
smaller doses ; this will control the blood 
density very nicely. However, it has been my 
experience that the intravenous treatment with 
the tissue salts reduces the density when it is 
too high and increases it when it is too low, 
especially in chronic cases. Sodium sulphate 
might also be given to reduce the blood den- 
sity, in ten grain doses intravenously. How- 
ever, I have not tried it out in acute cases. 




INSERTING THE NEEDLE 



INTRAVENOUS MEDICATION 89 

The most direct and potent method of giving 
medicines is hypodermically intravenously, and 
by inhalation. I have used these methods al- 
most exclusively in my practice for the past 
fourteen years with more than satisfactory 
results. I venture to say that these methods 
will be used universally in the near future. 



Blood Pressure 

Scientists are devoting considerable time to 
the subject of blood pressure at the present 
time, as the circulatory and nervous systems 
are very closely related and dependent upon 
each other. 

We have studied in another chapter how the 
brain demands and maintains a constant blood 
supply by a vaso-constriction of the venous 
side of the circulatory system. This is brought 
about automatically by a center in the brain 
which is stimulated to action by any impover- 
ished state of the blood or loss of blood from 
the circulation. 

We also have the thermotaxic center in the 
medulla which is affected by the temperature 
of the blood, causing a vaso-dilation or vaso- 
constriction of the arterioles as the case may 
be, thus regulating the heat of the body. 

The respiratory center in the medulla is 
stimulated to action by the accumulation of 
carbon dioxide gas in the blood which irritates 
the nerve endings and makes us breathe. This 
is why, when there is a deficiency of potassium 
or magnesium in the nervous system, the nerve 
fibers are not as sensitive to irritation and as 
a consequence do not react to stimuli, thus al- 
lowing the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas 
in the blood, which prevents proper oxidation 



92 BIOCHEMISTRY 

even when there are plenty of red blood cells 
and haemoglobin in the blood. This condition 
is called plethora and is found in apoplexy. 
These patients are slow breathers and under- 
oxydized. 

We will now study the relation of blood 
pressure to psychic conditions brought about 
by mental activity, or in other words, psycho- 
neurosis. 

The mercury sphygmomanometer is the 
most reliable instrument. 

The spring instruments get out of order 
easily. 

A blood pressure ranging between and 40 
would indicate syncope, unconsciousness, fear, 
or terror. 

A blood pressure ranging between 40 and 
70 would indicate indolence, dejection, fatigue. 

A blood pressure ranging from 70 to 100 
indicates gentleness, modesty, timidity. This 
is the zone of indifference. Blood pressure 
ranging from 140 to 160 the person begins to 
get noisy and gay. 

When the pressure ranges from 160 to 180 
we find the person in the zone of indignation, 
courage, boastfulness. 

In mental conditions associated with tears, 
wild laughter, and nervous irritation the blood 
pressure is around 200. 

Mental conditions associated with great 
fury, destructiveness, the blood pressure will 
range around 240. 



BLOOD PRESSURE 93 

Mental conditions indicated by paroxysms 
and a desire to kill, the blood pressure ranges 
around 260. 

The above readings are given to show the 
relation of blood pressure to mental conditions 
or states of the mind. This gives you a plausi- 
ble reason for the results obtained by those 
who practice mental healing, as a little experi- 
menting will prove to you conclusively that 
mental states affect the blood pressure and 
anything that affects .the blood pressure affects 
the physical well-being for good or ill, as the 
case may be*. 

We also have our answer why individuals 
who suffer from pathological conditions which 
affect their range of blood pressure are af- 
fected mentally, because they cannot compen- 
sate for changes in blood pressure. The liver 
in health is the great compensatory organ for 
the regulation of blood pressure. People with 
liver trouble are hypochondriacs. Statistics 
prove that a great many suicides suffer from 
liver trouble. 

The normal systolic blood pressure ranges 
from 105 to 145 millimeters in adults, in chil- 
dren of over two years from 85 to 110. In 
females the pressure is about ten millimeters 
less than in males. The normal diastolic pres- 
sure ranges from 25 to 40 millimeters below 
the maximal pressure. The normal pulse pres- 
sure ranges from 25 to 40. A continued sys- 
tolic pressure above 150 or below 100, and a 



94 BIOCHEMISTRY 

pulse pressure above 50 or below 20 may be 
regarded as pathological. 

As blood pressure varies with excitement, at 
different times of the day, and after eating and 
the taking of stimulants or depressants, we 
must take all these things into consideration on 
taking the blood pressure. 

The following diseases will show a high 
blood pressure : arteriosclerosis, angina pec- 
toris, aortic insufficiency, chronic nephritis, 
cerebral hemorrhage, cirrhosis of liver, eclamp- 
sia, gout migraine, pregnancy, toxaemias and 
uraemia. 

The following diseases, on account of their 
neurotic origin, will show a variable pressure ; 
asthma, coma, bronchitis, exophthalmic goiter, 
insanity, menopause, neurasthenia, pleurisy, 
and rheumatism. 

Diseases associated with lowered vitality 
will show a low blood pressure, such as tuber- 
culosis, acute diseases, anaemia, dilitation of the 
heart, cholera, diabetes, exhaustion, shock, 
hemorrhage, diarrhoea and starvation. 

Blood density and blood pressure are closely 
related since the density or viscidity will affect 
the blood pressure. 

Where you find a high blood pressure, that 
is a persistent high pressure without other 
pathological conditions present, you will find a 
very dense blood, especially where you have a 
high systolic pressure, as it is harder to pump 
a dense blood through the capillaries than it 



BLOOD PRESSURE 95 

would be a thin, watery blood, like we have in 
hydremic plethora or anaemia. 

The normal blood density is around 1060. 
I very often make the blood density test in- 
stead of the blood pressure test, and it is good 
practice to make both tests. 

To make the blood density test I use an ordi- 
nary urinometer that is graduated to 1060. 

I fill the tube with commercial chloroform 
and add ether until the density of the solution 
is 1060, that of normal blood. I then take a 
drop of blood from the finger and drop it into 
the solution. If it sinks to the center it is of 
the densitv of the test solution. If it rises to 
the top it is of a low density, and if it sinks to 
the bottom it is of a high density. By gradu- 
ating the sides of your test tube on making 
comparisons with the blood pressure apparatus 
you may estimate your blood pressure. Ben- 
zine or any other liquid which can be reduced 
to a density of 1060 may be used for making 
the test. 

You will note by a study of this instrument 
how the blood pressure is affected by various 
states of the mind, or how one psychic center 
in the brain affects another, thus raising or 
lowering the blood pressure, producing the 
various psycho neurosis and also affecting the 
vital activity of the body, producing disease 
or health as the case may be. 

There is no doubt but that all mental states 
are indicated physically and have a wonderful 
effect on physical well-being. 






96 BIOCHEMISTRY 

When we become angry to a slight degree 
the face flushes and when intensely angry 
there is a vaso-constriction and the complexion 
pales. A slight mental shock will flush the face 
of the bashful maiden quicker than the maxi- 
mum dose of atropine. 

Physical changes are produced by excite- 
ment, and excitement may be aroused by phy- 
sical changes. It is a poor rule that will not 
work both ways. This is proven by registering 
the arterial pressure with the manometer de- 
scribed above. 

A nervous person becomes angry when their 
slightest desires are not satisfied. For instance, 
if a nervous child is ordered to stop playing 
and go to bed there is a great mental shock 
produced. 

The subject of play occupies the whole men- 
tal field of the child, producing an accumula- 
tion of attention and energy in the motor zones 
of the brain which remains and demands ex- 
haustion. 

He naturally exhausts this nervous energy 
by flying into a fit of passion and when sub- 
dued by force tears of impotent rage flow 
which finally consoles him and relaxes the ex- 
citement of his brain. 

If the manometer be applied to this child it 
will rise to perhaps 260, the degree of pressure 
producing the desire to kill or mania transi- 
toria. 

But being overcome by force and weeping at 
his lack of power the arterial pressure will 



BLOOD PRESSURE 97 

gradually go down to 40, the stage of dejection 
and fatigue, and he falls asleep from exhaus- 
tion. Anger is thus shown to be an excitement 
of the passions with or without great impulse. 

The person who lacks self-control is excited 
by every little incident, while the man or 
woman who possesses self-control can hold the 
passions in abeyance and achieve his or her 
purpose in another way. 

Another thing that affects the passions of 
persons is the state of weather, especially those 
of a nervous disposition. 

Brainstorms are brought on by atmospheric 
tempests due to the electric stimulation of the 
highly charged air. A high spirited horse fre- 
quently tries to run away just before a storm. 
The school children, and sometimes the teacher 
if she does not possess the power of self-con- 
trol, becomes nervous and the whole school dis- 
organized. The manometer will show at these 
times that the arterial pressure has risen to the 
stage of nervous irritation. 

In states of high nervous tension we are very 
much alive, figuratively speaking, the blood 
stream becomes more concentrated and rich in 
globules, which are utilized instantaneously in 
the tissues. Combustion goes on more rapidly 
and sensibility is considerably excited. 

During this state of hypertension we use up 
our vital forces very rapidly and there is a 
rapid accumulation of waste products in the 
tissues causing fatigue. This high blood pres- 
sure and the rapid combustion going on in the 



98 BIOCHEMISTRY 

tissues call forth the carbohydrates stored 
therein, the liver gives up its glycogen which 
is transmuted into sugar to be used for body 
fuel. This is why we find sugar in the blood 
and the urine in excessive quantities after great 
fright or anger. There is also an increased 
secretion of adrenalin which constricts the ar- 
terioles and wards off exhaustion as long as 
possible. This is why we can perform feats 
requiring great strength during intense excite- 
ment which we could not do under normal 
conditions. 

Artificial stimulants and drugs that raise and 
lower the arterial pressure will produce all the 
different phases of passions as shown by the 
manometer. 

The table showing the range of arterial pres- 
sure and its bearings upon the mental states is 
true in the average individual, yet some cases 
may be found where a person with an arterial 
pressure of 240 is only angry. This is due to 
the elasticity of the arterial system which will 
relax to accommodate greater pressure in some 
individuals than others. People suffering with 
arterial sclerosis and cirrhosis of the liver can- 
not accommodate the various degrees of blood 
pressure as well as normal individuals. For 
this reason this class of individuals suffer from 
paralytic shocks very frequently under excite- 
ment or anything that causes a raise in their 
arterial pressure. 

The liver is a good reservoir for the accom- 
modation of high blood pressure. If we pal- 



BLOOD PRESSURE 99 

pate the liver under high blood tension we will 
find this organ very much distended and per- 
cussion dullness will extend from two to three 
inches past the normal limit. 

We can raise the blood pressure and distend 
the liver by rythmic tapping about 40 times per 
minute on the spine of the seventh cervical 
vertebra. By percussion on the tenth dorsal 
spine we may lower the blood pressure and 
contract the liver. 

In low states of blood pressure on the venous 
side the portal circulation becomes sluggish, 
the liver distended, thus causing a backing up 
of the venous circulation in all the chylopeptic 
viscera, the patient suffers with catarrh of the 
bowels, hemorrhoids ; if a female with uterine 
troubles which in turn cause reflex neurosis, 
via the pneumogastric and sympathetic ner- 
vous system to the brain and all the organs 
of the chest and viscera. These patients are 
sad and dejected hypochondriacs. 

Females at the period of puberty, at each 
menstrual period and at the menopause suffer 
from high arterial pressure. For this reason 
they are highly nervous and excitable at these 
times. 

If our arterial blood pressure is too high we 
are in great danger of acting abnormally and 
should take some treatment that will lower the 
blood pressure. Crimes might have been pre- 
vented had such treatment been given to some 
individuals suffering from abnormal blood 
pressure. 



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On the other hand if we are hopeless and 
apathetic and our blood pressure falls below 
70, which shows itself in a lack of interest in 
our surroundings, we may require stimulants 
to restore the normal pressure. 

Weak and irresolute persons suffering from 
lowered blood pressure have an accumulation 
of toxins in the system due to faulty metabo- 
lism from this cause, and are subject to fits of 
violence due to the irritation of these toxins 
which excites the nerves of sensibility the same 
as we can produce anger experimental by alco- 
hol, caffeine, and strychnine, or by mechanical 
stimulation of the ends of sensitive nerves with 
the hot bath and hair-glove. 

Fermenting food in the stomach will irritate 
the nerve ends and produce excitement or 
anger. 

If these stimulations are moderate and 
methodical instead of excessive, the mind may 
be attuned to gladness in life and love of work. 

Self control is the mark of real humans. 
Those who do not possess it are little above 
the brute. Be a master of your passions, learn 
to subdue them, do not allow them to master 
you or they will lead you through bog and fen 
and foul morasses and possibly land you in a 
felon's cell. Many great men have almost mas- 
tered the whole world but failed because they 
could not master their own passions. Exercise 
self-control, and keep your blood pressure in 
the zone of smiles and delight, never allow 
yourself to be driven to anger, much less to 
fury. 



BLOOD PRESSURE 101 

High blood pressure showing itself in the 
flushed face, plethora, trip hammer pulse and 
arteries that feel hard to the touch may be due 
to hypertrophy of the heart, cirrhosis of the 
liver, or kidney disease, and need the most 
critical attention. 

However, these conditions are usually 
brought about by over-indulgence, by a lack of 
self-control and bv overeating and under- 
working. Flat feet are usually caused by flat 
heads. 

The normal man lives a natural life and 
don't get rheumatism. Damaged men like 
damaged goods must go to the bargain 
counter. Up-to-date employment agents pay 
more attention to your physical appearance 
than to your recommendations. Your old rum 
soaked, smoked up carcass won't bring much. 
The future employer will require you to stand 
medical inspection. 

Disease comes only to those who have been 
preparing for it. It is a sequence postponed 
by nature as long as she can, and then, dis- 
couraged, she says let her go back to the melt- 
ing pot. 

People who dread disease have disease al- 
ready. The best receipt for health is keep 
busy, happy, and contented. Do not overeat. 
Do not overwork. Do not underbreathe. Be 
temperate in all things. As many people die 
from overeating as from drink, the only dif- 
ference being that when they overeat they kill 
only themselves. 






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Diogenes once collared a young man whom 
he caught going to a feast, took him home and 
ordered his parents to lock him up until his 
sanity returned. Diogenes knew that the mid- 
night supper spelled disease, disintegration, 
and death. 

If you have the coffee, meat, and pancake 
breakfast habit, cut it out, or you will soon be 
a candidate for the ether cone. 

Those who are given to the luxuries of the 
table are preparing themselves for the banquet 
of the graveworms. 

Think health, preach health, and let your life 
be one grand sweet song so that when your 
summons comes to leave this mortal state, you 
go not like the quarry slave at night scourged 
to his dungeon, but like the Arab who folds 
his tent at eventide and silently steals away. 



Bacteriology 



The internal secretory system while kept 
up by a flow of good rich blood to the glands 
in turn play a very important role in physiolo- 
gical chemistry. They act in harmony, and 
one cannot be removed without affecting the 
entire physiological chain that carries on the 
chemistry of life. 

For instance, the secretion of the pitnitary 
activates the thyroid. The secretion of the 
thyroid activates the spleen, adrenals, ovaries, 
intestines and pancreas. The adrenal secretion 
activates the ovaries and kidneys, and also 
inhibits the thyroid. The pancreas activate the 
liver, adrenals, and thyroid. 

Instead of giving the glandular extracts 
separately. I make a combination of the secre- 
tions which I give with the hypo once per week 
in combination with my haematone. 

This combination given by this method is 
taken up by the circulation and activates all 
the glands temporarily, after which nature will 
continue. 

The action of the internal secretions is 
zymotic. 

Digestion is carried on by the enzymes, and 
is a reconstructive process. 

Fermentation and putrifaction are destruc- 
tive processes carried on by microbes. 



10* BIOCHEMISTRY 

The two processes cannot be carried on in 
the same organism simutaneously. This is 
why infection, or microbic action, interferes 
with the chemistry of life. The fermentation 
test for bacteria in lactose peptone broth is 
based upon the gas formed by the action of the 
bacteria on the ferments. This test is accepted 
by all bacteriologists and proves my theory. 

One process must inevitably counteract the 
other. 

Rational living, eating and sleeping throws 
the balance of power on the side of the en- 
zymes. 

Ferments decompose complex organic mate- 
rial into simple compounds by the agency of 
either protoplasm itself, or of a secretion pre- 
pared by it. 

The bile, when normally secreted by the 
liver, emulsifies fats, stimulates peristaltic 
action, is antiseptic and alkaline, which is 
necessary to the action of the enzymes of the 
pancreas. 

The toxins produced by microbes are acid 
and irritating. They inhibit or destroy entirely 
the zymotic action of the internal secretions, 
thus interfering with all the vital processes 
and lowering resistance. 

This is why the bacillus Bulgaricus or the 
yeast ferment are valuable in auto-intoxication, 
the excessive ferment action predominates over 
the toxins. I frequently prescribe Fleisch- 
man's Yeast in chronic constipation and auto- 
intoxication with wonderful results. 



BACTERIOLOGY 105 

We have within our bodies the glandular 
system, nature's physiological laboratory, 
which prepares from the blood the substance 
which will render us immune to all disease if 
we give nature a chance and assist her by 
rational living. 

When the glandular system performs its 
function normally, bacteria cannot propagate 
in the body, at least to such an extent to be 
harmful. 

Blackheads are coagulated oily secretion in 
the glands of the skin. They form a fertile 
spot for the propagation of germs. An infected 
blackhead becomes a pimple which is the fore- 
runner of a boil, when the proper germs are 
present. 

The boil burrows deep into the tissues and 
infects the blood stream, which is followed by 
crops of boils ; thus we see a boil starts from 
the surface instead of the inside as many people 
think. 

When the air cells of the lungs become 
occluded with cheesy substance, namely, tuber- 
cles, they form a fertile spot for the propaga- 
tion of tubercular germs which are present at 
all times in the air we breathe. 

Some physicians claim rheumatism is caused 
by uric acid and others by infection. Both 
are right. 

The person with a gouty diathesis develops 
rheumatism when subjected to infection which 
breaks down his resistance and interferes with 
glandular activity, and thus prevents the 



106 BIOCHEMISTRY 

proper elimination of the urates, with an accu- 
mulation in the fluids of the body setting up an 
irritation of the synovial and serous mem- 
branes. 

This lessened alkalinity of the blood, due to 
an accumulation of acids and toxic products, 
dissolves out the alkaline cell salts from the 
cartilages and they become spongy and in- 
flamed. The lymphoid structures become 
(edematous, congested, and susceptible to in- 
fection. 

The tonsils when enlarged and inflamed 
become infected by the germs which are ever 
present in the throat. 

The gums bleeding and spongy recede from 
the teeth, forming pockets where pus germs 
accumulate, and we call the condition py- 
orrhoea. 

The surgeon who cuts out the tonsils and 
pulls the teeth, unless they be past medical 
aid, is treating effects instead of causes, and the 
condition will return. 

Mrs. L. brought her little boy to my office 
today, tonsils and adenoids were removed two 
years ago. His condition now is as bad as 
before the operation. 

Mrs. K. came to me a few days ago ; had gall 
bladder drained six months previous ; pyorrhoea 
present ; suffering from bracheal neuritis. The 
gall bladder trouble is worse than before the 
operation. 

I specialize largely on rheumatism, and have 
hundreds of case records like above to prove 



BACTERIOLOGY 107 

that these troubles return unless the cause is 
removed. 

I have come to the conclusion that the liver 
is the cause of 75 per cent of the cases of 
rheumatism, either directly or indirectly. 

Ulcerated tonsils, buboes, or pulmonary 
tubercles, are constitutional troubles, due to 
the same process, differing only in location 
and manner of infection. 

In my treatment of these diseases, I regulate 
the diet, treat the blood by direct method, and 
let nature do the rest. Germs never can and 
never have lived in normal blood. 

A natural prophylaxis is produced in the 
body by the enzymes. The enzymes are dual 
bodies ; one portion is soluble, non-diffusible, 
and destructive by heat. It is of a proteid 
nature. The other part is soluble in alcohol, 
diffusible, and may be boiled without losing 
its activity. This proves it is mineral in nature 
and composed of the tissue salts. 

Sanitary science has done more to decrease 
the death rate from infections and contagious 
diseases than has therapeutics. 

Some will say if germs are not the cause of 
disease what is the use of sanitation? Until 
we learn to live rational lives in accordance 
with the laws of health, we w 7 ill have lowered 
vitality. 

Every person w r ith lowered vitality is pre- 
disposed to infection which is a secondary 
complication in any disease. 

Microbes are found in and complicate 
diseased conditions of the organism ; they are 



108 BIOCHEMISTRY 

seldom, if ever, the cause of disease primarily. 

With three intravenous injections of the 
tissue salts as per my general formula, I have 
increased the red blood corpuscles from 
3,000,000 to 4,640,000, and the haemoglobin from 
54 to 81 per cent. 

This was in a third stage case of tubercu- 
losis, the weight increased and the bacilli dis- 
appeared from the sputum. I believe that if 
we can maintain this blood standard we can 
cure most of our tubercular cases, or our 
physiological teaching needs to be corrected. 

Pathogenic germs lose their virulence in the 
last stages of a disease even in the same 
individual. 

Pneumonia is only a manifestation of a local 
infection of the organism by the diplococcus of 
Frankel. It may be found in the throat of 40 
per cent of healthy people. The prognosis of 
the infection is governed by the tissues in 
which it is developed. In one person it causes 
pleurisy, in another endocarditis or pericarditis, 
and again it causes otitis, peritonitis or ar- 
thritis. Bacteriological investigation has proven 
this. Creosote and calcium are the indicated 
remedies in these conditions. 

The central group of molecules in the cell 
protoplasm is composed of the tissue salts. 
These elements are positive and produce the 
side chains which bind various materials, such 
as food, toxins, etc. These chains are termed 
receptors, and the substances which they bind 
are termed heptaphores. The toxins also con- 



BACTERIOLOGY 109 

tain a second or toxophore group. These toxo- 
phores set up an irritation in the cells causing 
them to throw into the circulation their recep- 
tors which act as antitoxins and are named 
haptines. 

After the cell has thrown off its receptors, 
or in other words precipitated some of its 
tissue salts, it must be supplied with more to 
meet the deficiency. 

These free receptors combine with toxins 
and neutralize them. These receptors in the 
serum of an immunized animal are what render 
it valuable as an antitoxin. 

Certain body cells, animal secretions, and 
bacteria act as anti-bodies in the blood. They 
have a destructive action on cells similar to 
themselves. This is the case when certain 
anti-bodies in the blood neutralize the potas- 
sium and calcium salts in the red blood cell, 
dissolving out the haemoglobin and causing 
haemolysis. This is the cause of chlorosis and 
anaemia. 

The tissue salts, if present in the blood 
serum, will act as or form antihaemolysins in 
the blood, thus saving the red cell and giving 
it more resistance. 

In the propagation of all pus organisms, cal- 
cium is consumed, and as this salt maintains 
the integrity of the cell a deficiency in it is 
followed by all the other cell salts with the 
chain of pathological conditions that follow. 

Cast off cell receptors furnish agglutinin, the 
action of which is described in the Widal Re- 



110 BIOCHEMISTRY 

action which is a clumping of bacteria with a 
loss of motility. 

Most bacteria are composed of negative sub- 
stances, therefore the cell salts which are posi- 
tive will unite with them, destroying them or 
rendering them harmless. Some bacteria are 
not killed until taken up by the leukocytes. 

The degree of phagocytosis is what deter- 
mines the Opsonic Index of the blood. If 
tubercle bacilli sensitized by the blood are 
taken up by the leukocytes, on an average of 
three to each leukocyte, and bacilli from the 
same emulsion sensitized by normal blood are 
taken up on an average of five to the leukocyte, 
the Opsonic Index of the blood is 3/5 of 1 or 
.60. The Opsonic Index of the blood depends 
upon the potassium, sodium and magnesium in 
the white cell, as these cell salts maintain the 
integrity of the cell and greatlv increase the 
Opsonic Index of the blood. In the third stage 
of tuberculosis with a mixed infection and 
leukocytosis of 2,500 per c.c. with four injec- 
tions of the tissue salts I have cured the 
infection, and as a result the blood count 
dropped to 10,000 per c.c. in three weeks' time. 
At the same time there was an increase in the 
red cells. This is conclusive evidence that the 
cell salts act as a physiological antitoxin with 
absolutely no ill effects on the system. If 
scientists would do a little rational experi- 
mental work, using nature's remedies to build 
up synthetic antitoxins instead of boiling up 
dead germs in the laboratory, the dawn of a 



BACTERIOLOGY 111 

new era would soon be ushered in, where the 
physician could cure his infectious cases which 
would be much more pleasant and profitable 
than signing death certificates. 

A lady patient who had been suffering with 
crops of boils for over two years, was cured 
without recurrence with one intravenous injec- 
tion of the general formula composed of cal- 
cium creosote and other tissue salts. She had 
five boils at the time of the injection and they 
disappeared within twenty-four hours. 

This is only one of the many cases of strep- 
tococci infection that I have cured with this 
treatment. 

A synthetic antitoxin of chemical origin, 
that will neutralize the toxins and raise the 
vitality, is the most rational. This is the action 
of a harmonious solution of the tissue salts. 
Serums have destroyed more lives than the 
diseases would have done if allowed to have 
run their course. Before the advent of the 
serum therapy, scarlet fever and diphtheria 
were equally destructive to life. While we 
have no serum for scarlet fever, the death 
rate has decreased as much in this disease as 
it has in diphtheria. We have acquired a 
natural immunity for these diseases which has 
had more to do with the decrease in mortality 
than the treatment of same. 

In the pathogenesis of all infectious diseases, 
we have a lowered vitality. The best germi- 
cide is pure rich blood containing the cell salts 
which give it vital, chemical, and physiologi- 
cal activity. 



112 BIOCHEMISTRY 

When vitality is low, we are predisposed to 
infection. In cold climates during the winter 
months when people are shut up in ill venti- 
lated tenement houses, using stoves and furnace 
heat which consumes the oxygen and throws 
off carbon dioxide gas, the vitality is lowered, 
which accounts for the increase of infectious 
diseases during these months. Germs differ in 
their characteristics as much as animals. Some 
are more virulent than others. Germs like the 
pneumococci multiply rapidly, throw off as a 
consequence more toxins, hence the disease 
runs a rapid course. 

Serums of germ origin will never prove bene- 
ficial, except in this type of disease that run a 
rapid course. 

When bacteria are sensitized and sterilized 
in the laboratory it is my impression that all 
we get is a protein of animal origin. 

These proteins cause quite a reaction in the 
organism and the beneficial results obtained 
from them are due to this reaction. 

I have found in my experimental work that 
I get the same raction from vegetble proteins. 

For instance, in hay fever, I have taken the 
flowering tops of the Rag weed and the Golden 
Rod, boiled them in a test tube, strained this 
solution and potentized it to the one-hundredth 
or 2X strength with equal parts of alcohol and 
distilled water, and then took 2 c.c. of this 
solution and added it to 8 c.c. of my Haematone, 
and injected same intravenously in hay fever 
cases with very good results. However, I 



BACTERIOLOGY 113 

would frequently get a reaction from this treat- 
ment. 

I have also taken fifteen drops of the 
patient's blood from the medium basilic vein, 
mixed it with 10 c.c. of distilled water, after 
which I haemolized it for twenty-four hours at 
32 degrees Centigrade. Next I sterilized by 
boiling and then added 10 c.c. of distilled water 
and filtered.' 

I added 3 c.c. of this solution to 6 c.c. of my 
Haematone and injected same into the vein and 
got considerable reaction such as a rise of 
temperature, rigors, movement of the bowels, 
which passed off in about half an hour and the 
patient improved. 

I have had some very good results from this 
method of treatment. 

If the serum is not boiled and given with the 
hypodermic same dosage, I get very little re 
action. 

I have also experimented with the vegetable 
proteids such as alfalfa, flax, millet, mustard, 
and clover seed, and many others which I do 
not recall. 

I prepared them by boiling the ground meal 
of these seeds in a solution of dilute hydro- 
chloric acid 6 per cent, after which I filtered 
and neutralized with either a sodium or a cal- 
cium salt, preferably sodium hydroxide. This 
solution should be potentized to about 3 per 
cent, protein solution with distilled water. You 
cannot use alcohol in making up these protein 
solutions. 



114 BIOCHEMISTRY 

I have also combined the proteins and en- 
zymes, which I have named Protozyme, which 
I use in conjunction with my intravenous 
solutions. 

If you have your protein solution perfectly 
hydrolized you will get very little, if any, re- 
action. Using alcohol, or getting your solution 
too alkaline, prevents the breaking up of the 
protein molecule. 

This protein serum should be given with the 
hypodermic and dosage not to exceed six to ten 
minims, using the technique for hypodermic 
medication in general. The use of the vege- 
table proteins should be continued for several 
weeks, if necessary, and given every third day. 

I have had very p-ood results in anaemic, 
rheumatic conditions, tuberculosis, and all 
chronic diseases. 

I have had the best results from the protein 
found in alfalfa meal. However you may make 
a study of the plants which have medicinal 
properties and experiment along these lines 
with results not yet attained by me. Keep your 
protein solutions in glass stoppered bottles. I 
have given you these few pointers for your 
investigation and meditation, so that you may 
learn that there are other things under the sun 
that will produce an anaphylaxis and prophy- 
laxis besides dead germ soup. 

I have advanced the theory for the past 
twelve years that pyogenic germs live in, and 
are carried from, one organ of the body to 
another by the blood. This has been lately 
proven on the battlefields of Europe. 



BACTERIOLOGY 115 

I recently had a case of tonsilitis that devel- 
oped an acute case of nephritis. 

Another case of a patient who complained of 
excessive fatigue all the time without other 
symptoms. The blood of this patient showed 
that the pneumococci were present in the blood 
stream. This patient never had pneumonia. 
We also have our typhoid carriers who them- 
selves seem perfectly healthy. 

According to standard analysis of milk, 
water and various foods a small number of 
bacteria to the c.c. is not considered patho- 
genic. As bacteria propagate by self-division 
once or twice per minute were it not for the 
normal resistance of the organism one bacteria 
would be just as pathogenic as a thousand. 

If we are all susceptible to infection, why do 
we quarantine the patient and allow the physi- 
cian to go from house to house, visiting sick 
patients? It seems to me that he is a regular 
germ peddler. 



Diet and Hygiene 

All reforms that have moved the world 
since the dawn of civilization have sprung 
from the undying yearning of the human race 
for an ideal state of existence, where all might 
live in harmony and peace. 

In the traditions of all nations or peoples 
we find the myth of some form of a lost para- 
dise, where man once lived free from disease 
and in perfect happiness and ease, and 
through all the ages man has been seeking to 
regain that lost paradise. 

Yet, in spite of all our efforts and struggles 
to reach that state, we seem to be as far as 
ever from the desired goal. War, murder, 
poverty, disease, and gluttony still hold sway 
in human society. 

Commercialism is absorbing the life blood 
of all nations and is the cause of all wars, 
including the present great war in Europe. 

We still allow poisons and stimulants to be 
sold which pervert the morals of our fellow 
beings, and necessitate the keeping up of 
jails, poor-houses, hospitals, and lunatic 
asylums. 

Very few people die a natural death. I 
will venture to say that 95 per cent of the 
human race commit suicide by unnatural 
living. 



118 BIOCHEMISTRY 

As tradition has it, no doubt there was a 
time when man lived to be several hundred 
years old, when he lived a more natural life, 
for it is easy to see that disease, poverty, and 
immorality are promoted by the false system 
of society under which we live more than they 
would be in the savage tribes. 

Diet reform will have a great deal to do with 
the mental and physical generation of the 
individual, and the food question in the past 
has had considerable influence over the pro- 
gress and wanderings of the human race. 

This is the age of efficiency, and there is no 
doubt that man can greatly increase his men- 
tal and physical efficiency by proper selection 
of food. 

The transmutation of food into physical 
energy is a process common to animals, but 
man should be able to select his food so as to 
derive the greatest energy with the least 
bodily effort and expense of his physical well- 
being. 

Geology divides the periods in which the 
earth's surface was forming into primary, 
secondary, tertiary, and quarternary. 

The fossil forms of animals and plants in 
the different strata of rocks show an almost 
uninterrupted gradation from the lowest to 
the highest forms of organic life, according to 
the time in which these changes were taking 
place on the earth's surface. 

All life originated in water, which in the 
primordial age almost covered the surface of 



DIET AND HYGIENE 119 

the earth. The lowest animal forms were 
nourished by the lowest plant forms. The 
monsters of the carboniferous period by the 
coarse and luxuriant vegetation which com- 
poses the coal beds, while the higher orders 
of plant life especially the fruit trees, belong 
to the era of man and his progenitors, and the 
fact that we find no flower-bearing plants and 
fruit trees in the fossil state clearly demon- 
strates their recent origin simultaneously with 
that of man. 

It is evident that the food of all animals 
was originally derived from the vegetable 
kingdom, and that no animals were originally 
carnivorous, but the evolution of this class of 
animals was brought about by the scarcity of 
plant food in a later geological period, at 
which time man also was forced for the same 
reason to become a flesh eater. 

Man's digestive organs were formed during 
the fruit eating period and have not changed 
materially since that time. 

It was not evolution that changed man from 
a fruit eating animal, but cataclysm which 
changed his food from fruit to flesh with 
"made dishes" to keep him from starvation. 

Geological researches have traced man's 
ancestry back to the tertiary period. For 
thousands of years he subsisted on a fruit 
diet, up to the time of the glacial period, 
about thirty thousand years ago, after which 
the earth's surface and climate changed, mak- 
ing it necessary for him to migrate and change 
his diet. 



120 BIOCHEMISTRY 

Mankind was homogenous before the age 
of ice, and the separation into distinct races 
took place during the migration of the glacial 
period. 

The finding of fossil remains of tropical 
animals in the arctic zones proves that before 
the glacial period a uniform warm climate 
existed over the entire surface of the earth. 

In such a climate of eternal spring, pri- 
maeval man lived for thousands of years, and 
the tropical forests furnished bread-fruit, 
dates, bananas, nuts, and all the necessaries 
of life in abundance. 

There was no need for inventing tools, or 
fire, and waging war to sustain life, or exploit 
his fellow beings. 

The age of snow and ice during the glacial 
period drove man from his Eden along the 
shores of the Mediterranean and the West 
coast of the Pacific ocean, also up into West- 
ern Europe, where he met with the cave lion, 
mammoth, bears, and other wild animals, 
making it necessary for him to use his arms 
and hands, and to develop his ingenuity and 
brain, in defending himself against these mon- 
sters of the forests. 

During this period, man invented fire for 
cooking and warmth, as well as to preserve 
his food. He also invented weapons from 
stones and bones of animals, and he gradually 
became a hunter. 

Having become a hunter, it was only a 
short step to become a warrior, especially 



DIET AND HYGIENE 121 

when a shortage in food forced the different 
tribes to contest for the spoils of the chase. 

The supreme intelligence that created the 
universe did not ordain that man should 
devour his fellow beings for sustainance, a 
practice which lowers his character and puts 
him on a level with the beasts of prey. 

Shortage of flesh foods and necessity soon 
taught man the secrets of agriculture, and 
when this industry began to develop, culture 
and the awakening of man's higher intellec- 
tual and moral faculties begtan to develop 
also. 

Therefore, it is in the temperate zones 
where man has to till the soil and plant fruit 
trees to sustain life that he is more progres- 
sive and prolific and that his sense of the 
beautiful, the basis of the arts and sciences 
is best developed. 

Nature drove our primitive ancestors from 
the tropical fields and compelled them to earn 
their bread by the sweat of their brow. In 
ignorance and want, man left his early para- 
dise ; through knowledge and industry, he will 
regain it, and with the achievements of art 
and science, he will make it far happier than 
that of Eden. 

Through war, hardships, and sufferings we 
reach the crowning heights of mental and 
moral perfection, leading us onward and up- 
ward to higher forms of life and civilization. 

Having induced you to see what man's 
natural diet is composed of, we will take up 
the chemical composition of food materials. 



122 BIOCHEMISTRY 

The study of the chemistry of food is in its 
infancy — fifty years ago nobody knew any- 
thing about the subject. 

Modern physiology teaches us that we need 
food to build and repair the various tissues 
of the body and to supply it with heat and 
energy. 

WATER, composed of hydrogen and oxy- 
gen forms 60 per cent of the body weight. 

PROTEIN, composed of hydrogen, nitro- 
gen, carbon, sulphur, and phosphorus forms 
18 per cent of the body weight. 

FATS, composed of hydrogen, oxygen, and 
carbon, form 15 per cent of the body weight. 

Carbohydrates contain the same chemical 
as the fats, only in a less concentrated form. 
They exist in nearly all plant foods, especially 
the cereals and in the sugar of sweet fruits. 

Protein is chiefly found in nuts, the white 
of eggs, and it forms the casein in milk and 
gluten in wheat. 

Protein is required to repair and build up 
the cells of the body, while carbohydrates are 
needed to keep up bodily temperature as well 
as muscular activity and should compose the 
chief part of the bill of fare. 

For the daily nourishment of the average 
man, about fourteen ounces of fat and carbo- 
hydrates, and about one ounce of protein, are 
necessary. 

The MINERAL elements, chiefly the five 
tissue salts, compose about 5 to 6 per cent 
of the body weight, but without which the 



DIET AND HYGIENE 123 

chemistry of life cannot be carried on and 
without which exosmosis and endosmosis is 
impossible. 

It has been demonstrated that an animal 
fed on food with the tissue salts extracted, dies 
as quick as it would from starvation. 

The chemistry of life is carried on by a 
process of electrolysis going on in millions of 
invisible batteries, by the play of electrically 
charged molecules, whose negative and posi- 
tive effects depend upon the presence of the 
tissue salts. 

These tissue salts, in order to perform their 
function properly, must be in the organic 
form, having passed through the vegetable. 

Normally, these foods are decomposed in 
the alimentary canal by digestion, which dif- 
fers greatly from fermentation and putrefac- 
tion. 

Digestion is a vitalizing process which sup- 
plies material for new organic structure, while 
fermentation and putrefaction are destructive 
processes carried on by microbes, which 
reduce the organic compounds into inorganic 
substances. 

When foods ferment in the alimentary tract 
this is what takes place, thus rendering them 
not only useless, but toxic. 

Food must contain some bulk of indigesti- 
ble substances to bring about mechanical 
activity in the intestines so that the bowels 
move normally. 

The following shows the chemical analysis 
of some of the principal foods : 



124 BIOCHEMISTRY 

COMPOSITION OF FOOD PRODUCTS 



FOOD MATERIALS 

(Average) 









c 


^ c 


c 


s<5 


$& 


& 




O u 


■M U 


£& 


u V 
-- 


--- 


77.1 


1.6 


0.3 


79.4 


0.6 


0.5 


86.2 


1.5 


0.2 


67.0 


2.5 


22.7 


84.5 


0.5 


0.5 


81.0 


1.0 


0.5 


86.4 


0.6 




86.4 


0.6 




92.1 


0.9 


0.1 


90.4 


1.0 


0.6 


29.2 


2.5 


0.6 


28.5 


4.5 


0.6 


38.2 


3.0 


0.4 


27.7 


4.3 


0.7 


'4.8 


2W 


549' 


5.3 


17.0 


66.8 


3.7 


15.6 


65.3 


3.7 


15.4 


67.4 


3.0 


11.0 


71.2 


2.5 


27.6 


56.3 


4.5 


27.9 


61.2 


3.4 


14.6 


61.9 


14.1 


5.7 


50.6 


91.2 


0.5 


0.1 


4.9 


32.6 


47.3 


5.9 


10.7 


7.0 


54.0 


16.5 


16.1 


61.9 


15.3 


4.4 


65.5 


13.1 


9.3 


87.0 


3.3 


4.0 


34.2 


25.9 


33.7 


11.0 


1.0 


85.0 



6 2 

U-eO, 



SS3 
III 



Bananas 

Grapes 

Oranges 

Olives 

Apples 

Pears 

Peaches 

Raspberries 

Water Melons . 
Strawberries . . . 
Dried Prunes . . 
Dried Raisins . . 
Dried Dates .... 

Dried Figs 

Sugar, refined . . 

Almonds 

Brazil Nuts 

Filberts 

Hickory Nuts . . 

Pecans 

Walnuts 

Butternuts 

Pine Nuts 

(Pignolias) .. 

Cocoanuts 

Cocoanut Milk . 
Peanuts, raw . . . 
Chestnuts, dried 

Beefsteak 

Halibut Steak. . 

Eggs 

Cow's Milk 

Cream Cheese . . 
Butter 



20.2 
19.0 
11.4 

3.4 
14.0 
17.0 
12.5 
11.7 

6.6 

7.4 
65.0 
63.2 
57.0 
71.0 
100.0 
17.3 

7.0 
13.0 
11.4 
13.3 
11.7 

3.4 

17.3 
27.9 
7.0 
12.5 
74.2 



5.0 
2.4 



0.8 
0.5 
0.7 
4.4 
0.5 
0.5 
0.5 
0.4 
0.3 
0.6 
2.7 
3.2 
1.4 
1.3 

"iis 

3.9 
2.4 
2.1 
1.5 
1.9 
3.0 

2.8 
1.7 
1.2 
2.6 
2.2 
0.9 
0.9 
0.9 
0.7 
3.8 
3.0 



380 

360 

225 

810 

230 

325 

225 

240 

135 

180 

1170 

1200 

1140 

1395 

1750 

3030 

3329 

3432 

3495 

3633 

3105 

3371 

3364 

2986 

150 

2735 

1875 

975 

475 

635 

310 

1885 

3410 



DIET AND HYGIENE 125 

Composition of Food Products— Cont'd 



FOOD MATERIALS 

(Average) 



s. «> 



O i- 

_ u 



- - 









(« 3 O 



-- 



Dried Peas 

Dried Beans . . . 
Dried Lentils . . . 

Oatmeal 

Cornmeal 

Whole Wheat . . . 
White Flour 

Rice 

Rice, peeled and 

polished 

Potatoes 

Tomatoes 

Cabbage 

Spinach 



9.5 
12.6 
11.6 
15.8 
12.5 
10.1 
14.2 
13.2 

14.3 
75.1 
94.3 
91.5 
88.5 



24.6 


1.0 


62.0 


2.9 


22.5 


1.8 


59.6 


3.5 


26.0 


1.0 


59.0 


2.4 


14.0 


6.0 


62.0 


2.2 


9.2 


1.9 


75.4 


1.0 


14.0 


2.2 


71.9 


1.8 


9.2 


1.0 


75.1 


0.5 


8.0 


0.8 


77.0 


1.0 


7.0 


0.3 


78.0 


0.4 


2.6 


0.3 


17.8 


1.5 


0.9 


0.4 


3.3 


0.6 


1.6 


0.3 


5.6 


1.0 


3.5 


0.6 


5.3 


2.1 



1665 
1620 
1620 
1800 
1635 
1650 
1635 
1650 

1600 
350 
100 
145 

160 



The mineral matter in food represents the 
tissue salts. The following is the United 
States Government analysis of the ash in the 
banana; Silica 2.19%, Lime 1.82%, Iron Oxide 
0.18%, Phosphoric Acid 7.68%, Magnesia 
6.45%, Soda 15.11%, Potash, 43.55%, Sulphur 
3.26%, Chlorine 7.23%. The ripe banana is a 
staple article of food and many native tribes 
almost subsist on them. 

PURIN-FREE DIET is indicated in 
chronic and irregular gout, chronic rheuma- 
tism, periodic headaches, migraine, asthma, 
bilious attacks, epilepsy, catarrh, neuras- 
thenia. 



126 



BIOCHEMISTRY 



Purin-rich. — Sweetbread, liver, beef, pork, 
mutton, chicken, veal, salmon, halibut. 

Purin-Poor. — Potatoes, onions, oatmeal, 
turnips, carrots, parsnips, asparagus, rhubarb, 
spinach, dates, figs, codfish, tea, coffee, cocoa, 
malt liquors. 



eggs, cheese, butter, 
rice, tapioca, cabbage, 
macaroni, strawberries, 



Purin-free. — Milk, 
sugar, white bread, 
cauliflower, lettuce, 
wines, spirits. 

SALT-FREE DIET.— A chronic inflamed 
kidney cannot freely excrete salt, which is 
therefore retained in the body. Water is also 
retained and dropsy results. Salt-free diet 
reduces salt percentage in the blood ; salt 
stored in dropsical effusion is drawn upon to 
make good deficiency in the blood and dropsy 
subsides. Especially indicated in chronic 
parenchymatous nephritis, cardiac dropsy, 
cirrhosis of liver. 

Amount of salt per 1,000 parts in: 



Grams 

Bread 8-10 

Sea Fish 5.4 

Milk 1.5-2.5 

Eggs 1.6 

Lentils 2.3 

Fresh Butter 1.0 



Grams 

Peas 0.6 

Meat 0.3-1.0 

Potatoes 0.5 

Fresh-water Fish ....0.48 

Fruit 03-0.2 

Rice 0.02 



Allow egg, bread without salt, butter with- 
out salt, tea, coffee, milk, chicken, fresh water 
fish, potato, jelly, custard. Forbid any salt to 
be added to diet. 



DIET AND HYGIENE 127 

MINERAL CONSTITUENTS OF THE 
FOOD 

Amount of mineral ingredients of diet 
needed per day: 

Phosphoric acid 3-4 Calcium oxide 0.7-1 

Sulphuric acid 2-3^ Magnesium oxide . .0.3-0.5 

Potassium oxide 2-3 Chlorine 6-8 

Sodium 4-6 Iron 0-006 

Infants require about five grains calcium 
daily. 

Milk contains one and a half grams of cal- 
cium in each liter. 

Eggs, cereals, rice radishes, asparagus and 
spinach are rich in calcium. 

Foods richest in iron are spinach, yolk of 
e gg"> beef, apples, lentils, strawberries, white 
beans, peas, potatoes, wheat and oatmeal. 

Animal foods are rich in sodium, vegetable 
foods rich in potassium. 

PURIN-RICH FOODS.— To be avoided in 
epilepsy: Salmon, halibut plaice, beef, pork, 
mutton, chicken, veal, liver and sweetbreads. 

If the patient shows loss of weight under a 
purin-free dietary, it is advisable to give fish, 
or even lamb or mutton. 

Migraine is caused by the accumulation of 
toxic wastes, probably of the purin group, in 
the blood. It corresponds with epilepsy in its 
pathogenesis and symptomatology according to 
Sajous. 

The accumulation mav be hastened by indis- 
cretion in diet, excess of food, midnight sup- 



128 BIOCHEMISTRY 

pers, etc. Excessive muscular fatigue causing 
an accumulation of toxic wastes too fast for the 
blood to dispose of may be an occasional cause. 
There may be reflex causes also from eye-strain 
or uterine disorders. 

There is a true relationship between mi- 
graine, epilepsy, and neuralgia. 

Dietetic treatment is the same as in epilepsy. 
Coffee and tea should be avoided, but water 
should be taken freely in large quantities and 
saline eliminants occasionally. Analgesics may 
be used with discretion. Thorough cleansing 
of the bowels to remove toxic material, and 
the administration of two teaspoonfuls of effer- 
vescent sodium phosphate before meals are the 
most rational measures in addition to the intra- 
venous treatment with Haematone. 

Neuralgia. — Treatment same as for migraine. 

Rheumatism and the Uric Acid Diathesis. — 
Rheumatism is essentially a dietetic disease 
and is curable by a well-balanced ration, cur- 
tailment of proteids and by augmenting the 
digestive powers. A milk diet should be re- 
sorted to in an acute stage of the attack. No 
red meats should be indulged in, and all arti- 
cles containing sugar should be reduced to a 
minimum. Saterlee says that the chief vital 
factor is proteid metabolism. A purin-free 
dietary should be adhered to as much as possi- 
ble. A hypodermic dose of my Protozymes, 
once per week, will be of value in these cases. 

CHRONIC SKIN DISEASES.— It has been 
long recognized that a faulty metabolism and 



DIET AND HYGIENE 129 

many chronic skin diseases, such as acne, ecze- 
ma, and psoriasis, go hand in hand. It is 
declared, that while all cases of eczema are by 
no means of gouty nature, it appears that the 
eruption is at least favored by the conditions 
of metabolism belonging to gout. 

A number of other skin diseases have been 
pretty definitely associated with gout, but the 
connection is not always as clear as in eczema. 
Psoriasis and the rheumatic diathesis are now 
generally associated, and it is thought that 
acne vulgaris is in some measure also charac- 
terized by a diminished alkalinity of the blood. 
A purin-free diet is to be recommended in these 
conditions, paying special attention to the 
nourishing virtues of the green vegetables. 

CHOREA is a rheumatic disease — an acid 
irritant being the cause in both cases. The 
dietetic measures advocated in epilepsy and 
rheumatism are indicated in chorea. 

ANyEMIA. — The most common cause of 
anaemia is a dietary deficient in iron. In the 
cases where the anaemia is due to some poison 
causing destruction of the red blood cells, food, 
no matter how rich in iron it may be, will of 
necessity prove valueless. 

In the commoner cases of anaemia a generous 
diet of beef, eggs, spinach, asparagus, and fruit, 
especially apples, will of themselves, provided 
the patient's digestive powers are normal, tend 
to promote recovery. Unfortunately, after a 
prolonged period of malnutrition the digestive 
powers are usually left much below normal. 



130 BIOCHEMISTRY 

In CHLOROSIS follow the same treatment 
as for anaemia, paying strict attention to the 
condition of the bowels in both cases. 

LOSS OF WEIGHT, resulting from poor 
nutrition, be the origin definite or obscure. 

LOSS OF APPETITE is nature's indication 
of enzyme deficiency, as a good appetite and 
vigorous digestive secretions go together. 
Pavlov says, "Where there is no appetite the 
digestive juice is absent." We may say where 
the digestive juices are absent there is no 
appetite. Appetite is the strongest of all stim- 
uli to the digestive glands, hence restoration 
of appetite of itself favors the return of normal 
digestive conditions. 

As the activator in the enzymes is composed 
of the tissue salts an intravenous injection of 
my Haematone every third day for six treat- 
ments stimulates the internal secretions of all 
the glands restoring normal metabolism in the 
system. 

In closing this chapter on Diet, I must say 
that I have studied the Diet question from a 
scientific standpoint for a number of years. I 
have observed people who have grown to a 
ripe old age and inquired into their diet and in 
many instances found them to be people that 
paid very little attention to what they ate. 

I have taken rheumatic cases which had 
been placed on a limited diet and physic given 
until they were hardly able to walk, and placed 
them on a rational diet giving them a laxative 
only when necessary and cured the patient 



DIET AND HYGIENE 131 

where the other physician failed. The only 
treatment I gave these patients was my rheu- 
matic solution of the tissue salts. 

The greatest difficulty experienced in out- 
lining a specific diet for an individual is that 
the diet indicated in a certain disease does not 
always agree with the individual. 

There are no two individuals in the universe 
exactly alike. Each organism has its peculiar- 
ities and idiosyncrasies and that is why we 
have no specifics in medicine. The old adage, 
"One man's food is the other man's poison," 
is true. 

If the individual has not intelligence enough 
to know what agrees with him, no one can tell 
him. 

An individual or a race of people seem to 
become accustomed to a certain diet. For in- 
stance, we have the German eating his cabbage, 
the Irish eating potatoes and buttermilk, the 
Italian eating spaghetti, the Turk eating his 
dates and datemeal, the Yellow races eating 
rice — all subsisting on an entirely different food 
and seem healthy and happy, but if you change 
their diet, they get sick. 

It is not so much a question of what we eat, 
as how much we eat. Overeating kills more 
people than drinking, in fact alcohol has a ten- 
dency to prevent auto-intoxication, the main 
trouble it causes an abnormal appetite, and we 
eat too much. 

In my case records of patients I have treated 
for Bright's Disease, forty out of fifty were 



132 BIOCHEMISTRY 

total abstainers, but all were excessive eaters. 

Numerous laws have been passed to protect 
the people against impure foods, but regardless 
of all this, foods are less pure today than they 
were fifty years ago. 

Our forefathers were not as well versed in 
synthetic chemistry as we are and did not 
understand food adulteration. 

We have advanced so far along the lines of 
synthetic chemistry, we have become experts 
in making articles synthetically and adulterat- 
ing many articles of food. 

We have privately owned cold storage plants 
where they hold eggs and meat for months and 
even years, until the prices suit monopolists. 

They smoke the meat over night instead of 
the old process of our fathers. They freeze 
tough old animals for months in cold storage 
plants, until the meat is as tender as spring 
lamb, but in this process purin basic poisons 
are formed which affect the health of the con- 
sumer. 

Bakers use milk and egg powder in cake 
making instead of the real article. 

Perhaps the time will soon come when gov- 
ernment ownership of the slaughter house and 
cold storage plants will overcome these diffi- 
culties. In the meantime we will have to get 
along as best we can under congested condi- 
tions in large cities, or follow the slogan, "Back 
to the soil." 

Don't believe everything you read on the 
Sign Boards, in fact it is good practice to avoid 



DIET AND HYGIENE 133 

the extensively advertised articles as the con- 
sumer pays for the advertising. 

When thirsty drink what the birds drink. 

When hungry, eat the fruit of the forest and 
products of the soil. 

Study nature and follow her immutable laws. 
Fix your gaze upon the stars, expand your 
chest and inhale the God given ozone to stim- 
ulate vital activity, making your blood a foun- 
tain of life, carrying health and vigor to every 
organ of the body. 



Mental Science 

Mental science is practiced by diverse meth- 
ods and under various names such as Christian 
Science, Suggestive Therapeutics, Auto-Sug- 
gestion, Divine Healers, Physicians, and many 
other cults too numerous to mention. 

Whatever you have a mind to call it, in sum 
and substance the underlying principle of all 
these methods of healing is Mental Science, 
or the effect the mind or brain exercises over 
the organism, and of which you get a pretty 
good idea of the way it effects the body for 
good or ill, in my chapter on blood pressure in 
this book. 

The organism is continually under the influ- 
ence of the mind and is being affected by the 
same especially during all our waking hours. 
The only time the objective mind releases its 
control over the body is during sleep which is 
ushered in with a general relaxation of the 
muscles of the body, bringing about a free and 
unobstructed circulation of the blood. 

The pores of the skin as well as the liver, 
kidneys, and ductless glands of the body per- 
form their functions properly during sleep. 
This is the main reason why we recuperate so 
rapidly while asleep. Sleep, nature's balmy 
restorer that knits the ragged sleeve of care. 
Sleep is more potent in its influence over phy- 



136 BIOCHEMISTRY 

sical well being than all the doctors and men- 
tal healers in the world, without which in a 
very short time the human race would become 
a band of raving maniacs. 

Sleep spells relaxation ; relaxation is abso- 
lutely necessary at least for eight hours out of 
every twenty-four, in order that we may enjoy 
perfect health. 

Relaxation is the end sought by all systems 
of healing, whether it be Christian Science, 
Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Suggestive Thera- 
peutics, doping the patient with opiates or 
bromides, taking a trip to the mountains or the 
seaside, playing golf and other athletic games. 
The main object in all these methods is to 
secure proper relaxation. Some people even 
go on a periodical drunk in order to achieve 
the above purpose, perhaps not realizing why 
they do it. 

Contraction is the word we will use for the 
opposite of relaxation in this chapter, as it will 
answer our purpose very nicely. It seems that 
life is a battle between opposites ; for instance, 
we have positives and negatives, light and 
darkness, pleasure and pain, health and disease, 
good and evil, joy and sorrow, rich and poor, 
strong and weak, music and noise, and I might 
go on indefinitely, but space will not permit. 
These are only relative terms made by man to 
express opposites, and from a scientific stand- 
point differ only slightly. 

The emotional center in the brain, when 
depressed, causes us to weep and when stim- 



MENTAL SCIENCE 137 

ulated causes us to laugh, also to become angry 
or vice versa, good natured and happy through 
its control over the blood pressure, as I have 
stated in another chapter. 

Certain mental states will cause vasocon- 
striction (contraction) or vaso-dilation (relax- 
ation) of the circulatory system. 

Contraction with retention of the waste pro- 
ducts of metabolism and relaxation with elim- 
ination of these products you can plainly see 
may be brought about by proper mental con- 
trol. The Divine admonition "Know Thyself" 
has not been followed very closely by the 
human race, and as a natural sequence very 
few of us know anything about ourselves — 
pardon me for saying, not even as much as the 
lower animals, for a dog exercises more judg- 
ment in taking care of his body than the 
average man. 

Oh, man, thou who has created GOD in 
thine own image, what has come of thy vaunted 
knowledge? Poor carniverous being, eating 
slop with the hogs, living by rapine, brigan- 
dage, and usurpation of the rights of thy fellow 
beings, filtering a few measly dollars from the 
sweat of the more unfortunate fellow beings, 
that you may indulge yourself in riotous living 
here on this planet for a few short years, while 
the unfortunate human being whom you ex- 
ploit is willing to place some worm of the dust 
on a pinnacle and worship him, aye, even call 
him "King" while at his command he goes out 
to battle and kills his fellow beings in order 



138 BIOCHEMISTRY 

that his king may live in luxury. We call our- 
selves wise — why the bees in the beehive kill 
their drones and work under a far more harmo- 
nious regime than we. When shall you rise 
from your slumbering lethargy and no longer 
allow your rights to be prostituted, contented 
with the thought which has been impressed 
upon you by your canny superiors that you 
shall save your soul in the future existence. 
Never mind your soul. No soul shall be lost 
that is worth saving. 

So far I can see no excuse for saving the 
human race, as they have proven themselves 
unfit to live here on this planet, to say nothing 
of the hereafter. At the present moment over 
in Europe twenty million human beings are 
waging war and trying to kill each other and 
for what? In the shadow of the Tomb of the 
greatest personage that ever lived on earth ; 
He, who preached the gospel of ''Peace on 
Earth and Good Will Toward Men" may be 
heard the combined tread of the martialled 
hosts of Europe. Their martial music is the 
wail and cry of orphans and widows and the 
conflagration of great cities. 

While attempting to teach mental science 
under such circumstances is like a voice crying 
out in the wilderness. I firmly believe that 
out of this great strife shall come broader free- 
dom and larger liberties for the common 
people. 

Human progress is only made by one of the 
two methods, Evolution or Revolution, and as 



MENTAL SCIENCE 139 

we have not developed high enough mentally 
to progress by evolution, the natural method, 
we must progress by revolution. 

The main trouble with the human race so far 
has been that we crucify our redeemers and 
persecute our reformers. 

When we learn to "live and let live" we shall 
have no further need for dope or doctors, I 
care not what their cult may be. 

Sympathy under this false system in which 
we live is craved by every human heart. 

The average business man in this commer- 
cial age is so taken up with his business that 
he has no time for home and family, and while 
he may give his wife everything in worldly 
goods that her heart desires, it is breaking for 
just a little bit of sympathy, while the other 
man's wife whom he euchers out of these goods 
to give them to his wife is dying from neglect, 
consequently he has created dis-ease in both 
families. This craving for sympathy causes 
depression or constriction, and this is followed 
by indigestion with probably gas distention in 
the lower bowels — the family physician is 
called in. Thence follows a case of misplaced 
sympathy; he looks grave and the patient be- 
comes apprehensive, and between the two they 
soon work up a case of fatal obstruction, or 
appendicitis, or whatever they have a mind to 
call it. The patient is rushed to the hospital 
and operated on before the gas has time to pass 
off, because the patient might lose her fear and 



140 BIOCHEMISTRY 

decide not to be operated on when relieved of 
the gas pain. 

A desire for sympathy causes people to tell 
their friends of their great suffering. Their 
friends all have a good doctor or a good cure 
to suggest for their troubles. It does not take 
long until they have the patient suffering from 
a psychopathic trouble, or from fear, which 
causes constriction with a concentration of 
nervous energy on the affected part, which in 
time will produce a pathologic condition if one 
does not already exist. 

There are many honest physicians who do 
not have much time to condole and sympathize 
with these patients and their services are not 
appreciated. They regulate the patient's diet, 
usually find they are making garbage cans out 
of their stomachs, and give them a compound 
cathartic pill to relieve their condition. 

Rational people will appreciate this sort of 
treatment, but there are many who will send 
for another doctor as soon as the first one is 
out of sight, one who can spread the salve, and 
who will magnify their ailment. They want 
sympathy, and are going to have it regardless 
of what it costs in money or bodily mutilation. 

I am pleased to note that we are getting 
more and more people in the world who are 
beginning to think for themselves, and who 
will allow no doctor, priest, or lawyer to do 
their thinking for them, not even the old lady 
gossips in the community, who have a nose as 



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long as the bill on a crow and who keep stick- 
ing it into everybody's business. 

When some one says, you look sick, you are 
working too hard, you should rest more ; these 
suggestions have no influence over them for 
sound sense and good judgment declare, "I 
know how I feel, no one can feel my emotions 
or do my thinking for me — why should my 
actions be guided by others, who know nothing 
about me?" 

It is only those who do not know themselves 
who need doctors for their bodies, preachers 
for their souls, and policemen and lawyers to 
help them fight their enemies. The world is 
full of people who have failed because of some 
minor detail, they have learned all the elements 
of salesmanship, except affability, and fail on 
this account. Many a doctor who is much 
more proficient from a scientific standpoint 
than his competitor fails because he lacks sales- 
manship. Patients come to them depressed in 
spirits, they feel sorry for themselves, and if 
the doctor does not magnify their ills and sym- 
pathize with them, they will seek one who 
does. Sympathy and sweet words have won 
many a woman to the operating table. 

Many women have false ideas of life. Their 
husbands have failed to meet their expectations 
— they are longing to be understood, they are 
suffering from emotional insanity, perhaps 
mania transutoria. They are like an unmanned 
bark upon an unknown sea, whose shoals are 
false ideas, the waves of impulse and emotions 



142 BIOCHEMISTRY 

are sure to shipwreck them, and the medical 
sharks will surely get them. 

Emotion and reason are opposites and can- 
not exist in the same mind at the same time. 
Emotional people are sure to get caught in the 
medical, legal, and ethical traps baited by char- 
latans who assume to hold the keys to all cor- 
rect knowledge which they keep protected by- 
law. 

Most systems of healing of the present day 
are palliative. We treat effects instead of 
causes. No doubt palliative measures may be 
brought about mentally as well as with drugs. 
There are only about two things we can do 
with the organism, and these are inhibition and 
stimulation. You can place all the drugs in 
the Materia Medica under these two heads. 
The drugless healers get their results also by 
one of these two effect on the body, whichever 
is indicated. 

You can inhibit and stimulate mentally or by 
physical methods such as Osteopathy. 

There is good in all systems of healing, and 
the wise physicians will use all methods to get 
results. The trouble with so many practi- 
tioners is that they know only one method, and 
they are bigoted enough to think they can cure 
all diseases by that one method. 

Surgery is an absolute science, but many 
surgeons have surgical insanity and think they 
can cut out all disease, and I have known 
Christian Science healers to treat a cancer case 
until metastasis had set in, carrying the disease 



MENTAL SCIENCE 143 

by the blood to all parts of the body when a 
surgical operation in the beginning would have 
cured the case. 

Fear is another mental disease which is 
abroad in the land. The coward fancies dangers 
which do not exist, and dies a thousand deaths. 
Fear is the first and last enemy of the soul. 
Every mother should impress upon her child 
the lesson of courage. 

Scaffolds, jails and prison colonies have pro- 
duced more criminals than they have ever 
healed. It is fear that makes criminals, and 
every criminal is a moral coward. 

No brain cramped with fear could ever see 
the truth. No soul except the soul unafraid, 
could ever be genuinely good. No religion of 
any value to ennoble life can be based upon 
anything but pure bravery. Lord, give us more 
brave men. Men who will dare to tell and live 
the truth ; Men who will not lie, Men who will 
meet destiny, their fellow r -men and the un- 
known with utter fearlessness. 

While we have absolute proof that microbes 
have existed upon the earth for thousands of 
years, and while it is only since the perfection 
of the microscope a few years past, that we 
have known anything about them, and while it 
is also a fact that people lived longer before 
they knew anything about them than they do 
now, it looks to me like the fear of the microbe 
kills more people than the microbes them- 
selves. 



144 BIOCHEMISTRY 

For some reason or other the babies of the 
ghetto districts seem to be stronger and live 
longer and resist disease better than the steril- 
ized food babies of the silk stocking districts, j 

The fact of the matter is that germs only 
effect people whose vitality is below the nor- 
mal standard. If germs could hurt healthy 
people, the human race would be annihilated in 
thirty days. 

Fear lowers the vitality. The results ob- 
tained by Christian Science in many cases is 
their utter disregard for disease, removing the 
constriction of fear where the disease was a 
mental disease. 

However, after a disease has progressed far 
enough to be a physical disease, only physical 
methods will cure same. Real disease is physi- 
cal and pertains only to the physical body, 
Sin also is physical. The idea of sinning against 
the Creator of a million worlds like this is pre- 
posterous. We can sin only against our own 
physical body or some other physical body. 
The body is a house of clay designed to be 
only a temporary abode for the spirit, while it 
is undergoing preparation and receiving im- 
pression for a future existence. 

Be not afraid. The Divine intelligence that 
marks the sparrow's fall will take care of you, 
perhaps the master-piece of his creative genius. 

If it takes the fear of Hell-fire to keep you 
from sinning, you are a moral sinner already. 
The Divine admonition "Thou shalt not kill, 



MENTAL SCIENCE 145 

steal, and worship false Gods" was not meant 
for me. 

I have no desire nor inclination to kill nor 
steal, and the Creator of a million worlds like 
this, who saw fit to place me here at this par- 
ticular time, is a fit subject for my adoration, 
and I am willing to sit at His feet through 
countless ages and learn lessons of beauty, 
holiness and truth and so far as I am con- 
cerned, He can cut out the psalm singing for 
the sweet harmony of His words of wisdom and 
truth will be music enough for me. 



Complimentary Closing 

To thine own self be true ; and it must follow as the 
night the day. Thou can'st not then be false to any man. 

— Shakespeare. 

In closing this little volume I must say I 
have followed the evolution of my own mind 
as it has led me into the deep recesses of 
science. I could do nothing else and be true 
to myself. If I am not true to myself I cannot 
be true to the God of Nature and the creations 
of his evolving and immutable laws. 

I may have made mistakes, but in my scien- 
tific research work I have followed as near as I 
knew how the natural laws, and when we keep 
close to the great heart of nature, we seldom 
go wrong. 

This little work may seem revolutionary 
from a medical standpoint, but we are living in 
a revolutionary age. 

The old ideas, laws, customs, creeds, and 
worn-out theories are being shot to pieces. 

How glorious it is to live at this particular 
time in the World's history. 

Nature's God has been suffering from auto- 
intoxication due to an accumulation of the 
waste products of superstition, ignorance, and 
gluttony. Spontaneous combustion has taken 
place in the form of a world war, which will 
purge her of a lot of these unnecessary evils. 



148 BIOCHEMISTRY 

When a mind evolves wrong, nature destroys 
the body that supports it. 

We have been accustomed to think that 
Europe was the seat of all learning and 
knowledge. It mattered little whether it be 
turtle soup or bug juice, if it came from Europe, 
the people of the good old U. S. A. would bare 
their biceps and let you pump away. 

The fact of the matter is, we have more 
scientists to the square inch in this starry 
spangled land of Liberty than they have in 
Europe, to the square mile. 

The Golden Calf has been our scape goat 
and on its back we will place our kings, super- 
stition, false ideas, and booze — tie a can to its 
tail and chase it over the great divide. 

Our Kershina light shall be the smoke and 
fire of battle which shall lead us out of the 
wilderness of ignorance, false psychology, and 
dogmas into the bright light of a new day 
when every man shall learn to exercise his 
God given powers and think for himself, in- 
stead of allowing some petty-fogging lawyer, 
doctor, priest, or king do his thinking for him. 

We cannot violate the laws of nature and 
live. If we do not heed her bidding she will 
send us back to the mill of the gods and grind 
us over. Next time she may get more mind 
out of our ashes. 

We never get sick unless we violate some 
natural law, such as overeating or working, 
using narcotics, stimulants, such as coffee, tea, 
tobacco, etc., 



COMPLIMENTARY CLOSING 149 

If we do not obey the physical laws of 
nature, we must die a physical death. Man is 
a product of the evolution of all the animal 
life in all ages and in his make up we find the 
queer heredity and characteristics of some of 
these animal natures. He may have the cun- 
ning of the fox, the greediness of the pig, the 
friendship of the dog, the timidity of the sheep, 
or the ferocity of the lion, but the mark of true 
manhood is to control these animal passions. 
When you start out on life's highway it is your 
duty to select the animal quality to make your 
journey a success. Do not scoff, but keep your 
mental eyes open and be willing to learn. When 
you cannot learn anything more even from a 
monkey, you have outlived your period of use- 
fulness. 

Study nature and meditate on her wonderful 
creations and laws. 

Remember that the falling of a leaf with 
the destruction of the microscopic life on its 
surface may be just as great a catastrophe to 
its inhabitants as the destruction of a world 
like ours would be to us. 

Science has never yet seen the chemical 
atom, and Sir William Crookes tells us there 
are several finenesses of ether. 

Remember you are only a vibrating molecule 
in a universe of matter. 

There are many men who imagine they guide 
the destinies of people and nations. Their laws 
are foolishness and medicines poison. 



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In reality they are but scum froth gliding 
down the dark stream of decadence. 

If I have succeeded in making you think for 
yourself instead of following the old lines of 
stereotyped thought handed down to you in 
college ; I have not labored in vain. 

Colleges never have and never can be any- 
thing else but dispensers of second-hand 
knowledge. 

Respectfully, 

THE AUTHOR. 



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